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Topic: US DoJ Indicts NK Hackers offers bounty for his head (Read 157 times)

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The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, engages in certain malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Rim Jong Hyok is a national of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) who is associated with a malicious cyber group known as Andariel. The Andariel group is controlled by the DPRK’s military intelligence agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, which has primary responsibility for the DPRK’s malicious cyber activities and is also involved in the DPRK’s illicit arms trade.

https://www.state.gov/rewards-for-justice-reward-offer-for-information-on-north-korean-malicious-cyber-actor-targeting-u-s-critical-infrastructure/

So the USA is offering a huge bounty on a North Korean entity as he is the mastermind of a attack on critical US infrastructure. But I'm not sure if there will be takers here, as we all know that North Korean are very close knit and I doubt that somehow, someone will be a turn coat unless they really wanted to get out of the country and set up a live outside and most likely in the US but it's a big risk on them.
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