US intelligence officials have claimed that North Korea resorted to cyber crime following the imposition of sanctions against the country. The report also said that Pyongyang has been using a variety of methods for spreading propaganda and disinformation in recent years.
US intelligence officials have claimed that North Korea resorted to cyber crime following the imposition of sanctions against the country. The assistant director of the FBI’s cyber readiness, outreach and intelligence branch, Tonya Ugoretz, said the sanctions promoted North Korea to carry out a range of high-profile incidents, including the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, a bank robbery in Bangladesh in 2016 and the WannaCry ransomware attack the following year.