How could a nation like North Korea conduct an elaborate hack against Sony and how does North Korea conduct cyber operations. What about the $100 million dollar bank heist against the Central Bank of Bangladesh? In this video we cover North Korea’s cyber operations and overall strategy.
Ever since the 90’s, North Korea has viewed cyber warfare and a network military as a power projection tool. For years, they’ve sent dozens of their soldiers abroad to learn computer science and hacking. Partner countries like China or Russia, have aided them.
Additionally, North Korea organizes political structure to strategically maximize resources geared towards cyber. It’s estimated that they currently have about 7,000 soldiers working in their cyber operations.
These hacking groups create shell companies and websites to recon and then attack their objectives. Kim Jung Un and his army of cyber operators, are able to achieve high-reward results with fairly low-sophisticated techniques.
