North Korea’s elite hackers turned on their own government – and got caught

For years, North Korea’s state-trained hackers have been one of the world’s most prolific robbers of banks – stealing huge sums of money from foreign financial instituions, draining cryptocurrency exchanges of billions, and funnelling the proceeds into the country’s weapons programme.

But now, in a remarkable twist, some of the same elite hackers appear to have decided to rob their own government instead. And, it doesn’t sound as if it has ended that well for them.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.GRAHAM CLULEYRead More