Cybersecurity
U.S. Sanctions North Korean Hackers For Damaging Online Attacks
- U.S. says one group responsible for interbank messaging attack
- Another group responsible for WannaCry 2.0 attack, U.S. says
People bow before statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il on Mansu hill in Pyongyang.
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The U.S. sanctioned three North Korean state-sponsored groups that it says were responsible for hacking the interbank messaging system Swift and a ransomware attack called WannaCry 2.0 that crippled Britain’s National Health Service and Renault SA factories across Europe.
The Treasury Department said Friday the hacking groups are commonly known as Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff and Andariel. The groups are controlled by North Korea’s primary intelligence bureau, Treasury said in a statement.