800 North Korean Hackers Preparing to Attack
NK Daily is reporting that North Korea is executing cyber attacks around the World.
According to NIS (South Korea National Intelligence Service), North Korea’s hacking and cyber terror groups number between 700 and 800 persons acting on the orders of the General Bureau of Reconnaissance of the Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces. They have hacking bases in several places in North Korea, and some even operate in China. Basing his speech on NIS materials, Hwang Jin Ha explained, “We presume that they (the North Korean cyber attack group) gather information and generate social unrest most of the time, while working to paralyze a country’s functions in war time.” Committee members revealed in a briefing after the hearing that there have been approximately 48,000 North Korean cyber attacks against South Korean targets since January, 2004, and 9,200 during this year alone.
These have included attempts to hack into locations related to the preparatory committee for the G-20 meeting, which is scheduled for November 11-12, ROK-US Combined Forces Command and the computers of lawmakers’ and their aides.
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Analysis. This becomes more important when connected to the shooting incident in the DMZ today. If the shooting fails to get the North Koreans the meeting they want, they may execute cyber attacks on South Korea and the United States.
