UNITED NATIONS — North Korea stole more cryptocurrency assets in 2022 than in any other year and targeted the networks of foreign aerospace and defense…
“ used increasingly sophisticated cyber techniques both to gain access to digital networks involved in cyber finance, and to steal information of potential value, including to its weapons programs,” independent sanctions monitors reported to a U.N. Security Council committee.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“These actors continued illicitly to target victims to generate revenue and solicit information of value to the DPRK including its weapons programs,” the U.N. report said. It also said that, according to a cybersecurity firm, a North Korean-linked group known as HOlyGhOst had “extorted ransoms from small- and medium-sized companies in several countries by distributing ransomware in a widespread, financially motivated campaign.”
North Korea has long been banned from conducting nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches by the Security Council. Since 2006, it has been subject to U.N. sanctions, which the Security Council has strengthened over the years to target Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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