Security News > 2020 > April > Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps

The US government's Computer Emergency Response Team has posted a new report on the latest exploits of North Korea's Hidden Cobra hacking crews.

The updated advisory details how the hacking groups believed to operate on behalf of the isolated government, have carried out various hacking operations in recent years in an effort to drum up cash for the sanctions-hit regime.

Among the claims in the report are that DPRK hackers have started strong-arming companies into paying them off for "Protection" and have also loaned their services out to other hacking crews.

US-Cert also notes a number of recent reports on the group, including the 2019 UN Panel of Experts report that determined the hacking crew had probably generated something in the range of $2bn for the despotic regime since it first emerged back in 2014 with the hack of Sony.

So what's the point of all this? Well, other than to remind businesses that Hidden Cobra is still out there and posing a threat to both private and public-sector companies, US-Cert wanted to let people know that there remains a massive bounty on members of the hacking crew.

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