North Korea hacked Swift -- are they also stealing bitcoins?

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Quote from: monsanto on May 28, 2016, 01:59:02 AM

Now that North Korea has been tied to the Swift banking hacks, how likely is it that North Korea has also been involved in major hacks of Bitcoin exchanges, etc?

It appears you need to detach yourself from the matrix called the mainstream media:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/24/no-north-korea-didn-t-hack-sony.html

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“If you believe North Korea was behind those attacks, then the bank attacks were also the work of North Korea,” said Eric Chien, a security researcher at Symantec, who found that identical code was used across all three attacks.

What kind of assessment in this? Are they just trying to find a scapegoat?

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if North Korea can hack swift, then swift is pretty much fucked. next countries which hack swift are probably Nigeria, Mongolia and Fiji.

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..like bright metal on a sullen ground.

Now that North Korea has been tied to the Swift banking hacks, how likely is it that North Korea has also been involved in major hacks of Bitcoin exchanges, etc?

North Korea Linked to Digital Attacks on Global Banks

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/business/dealbook/north-korea-linked-to-digital-thefts-from-global-banks.html

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Security researchers have tied the recent spate of digital breaches on Asian banks to North Korea, in what they say appears to be the first known case of a nation using digital attacks for financial gain.

In three recent attacks on banks, researchers working for the digital security firm Symantec said, the thieves deployed a rare piece of code that had been seen in only two previous cases: the hacking attack at Sony Pictures in December 2014 and attacks on banks and media companies in South Korea in 2013. Government officials in the United States and South Korea have blamed those attacks on North Korea, though they have not provided independent verification.

On Thursday, the Symantec researchers said they had uncovered evidence linking an attack at a bank in the Philippines last October with attacks on Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam in December and one in February on the central bank of Bangladesh that resulted in the theft of more than $81 million.

“If you believe North Korea was behind those attacks, then the bank attacks were also the work of North Korea,” said Eric Chien, a security researcher at Symantec, who found that identical code was used across all three attacks.

“We’ve never seen an attack where a nation-state has gone in and stolen money,” Mr. Chien added. “This is a first.”

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