Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps

The US government's Computer Emergency Response Team (US-Cert) has posted a new report on the latest exploits of North Korea's Hidden Cobra hacking crews. The updated advisory (PDF) details how the hacking groups believed to operate on behalf of the isolated government, have carried out various hacking operations in recent …

[Claverhouse]

Mongeese Beware

If they ever pay it.

[sanmigueelbeer]

DarkHotel (APT-C-06) Attacked Chinese Institutions Abroad via Exploiting SangFor VPN Vulnerability

DarkHotel (APT-C-06) Attacked Chinese Institutions Abroad via Exploiting SangFor VPN Vulnerability

Darkhotel is another group of North Korean hacking team/unit.

They have been accused of hacking into the World Health Organization a few weeks before.

Based on the article above, they have been accused to have hacked several Chinese government health agencies.

[Mike 16]

Modus Operandi

" ... conducted extortion campaigns ... by compromising an entity’s network and threatening to shut it down unless the entity pays a ransom"

Sounds like Comcast to me.