Malware used by North Korea in Sony hack shared 'remarkable similarities' with malware used in 2013 attacks against South Korea.Also one of the command and control servers used in Sony hack was also used in last year's cyber attacks in South Korea
North Korea has developed a 1,700-man hacker team to strengthen the country's cyberwar capabilities, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service.
During a recent congressional intelligence committee briefing, the South Korean agency stated that the North had established a cyber strike command under its General Reconnaissance Bureau and is now operating seven hacking organizations with 1,700 hackers in a special department under North Korea's National Defence Commission and the Workers' Party of Korea, the country's ruling party.
Based on their analysis, the Korea Computer Center, the North's leading government information technology research center, currently has around 4,200 staffers working for various agencies under the guise of software developers.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was quoted as saying that in addition to nuclear weapons, the rogue state's cyber warfare capabilities are "a magic weapon" that empowers its army to launch "ruthless strikes" on the South.
North Korea was also accused by the agency of "psychological warfare" by producing anti-South Korean propaganda to operatives through spy networks in China and Japan via its State Security Department and a secretive agency under the Workers' Party called Bureau 225.
The intelligence service also suggested that Pyongyang has been manipulating online discourse by posting articles on blogs and sending emails to South Korean journalists.
North Korea has developed a 1,700-man hacker team to strengthen the country's cyberwar capabilities, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service.
During a recent congressional intelligence committee briefing, the South Korean agency stated that the North had established a cyber strike command under its General Reconnaissance Bureau and is now operating seven hacking organizations with 1,700 hackers in a special department under North Korea's National Defence Commission and the Workers' Party of Korea, the country's ruling party.
Based on their analysis, the Korea Computer Center, the North's leading government information technology research center, currently has around 4,200 staffers working for various agencies under the guise of software developers.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was quoted as saying that in addition to nuclear weapons, the rogue state's cyber warfare capabilities are "a magic weapon" that empowers its army to launch "ruthless strikes" on the South.
North Korea was also accused by the agency of "psychological warfare" by producing anti-South Korean propaganda to operatives through spy networks in China and Japan via its State Security Department and a secretive agency under the Workers' Party called Bureau 225.
The intelligence service also suggested that Pyongyang has been manipulating online discourse by posting articles on blogs and sending emails to South Korean journalists.
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