Today the U.S. Justice Department is expect to announce charges against Pak Jin Hyok , an allege North Korean spy , in the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack . Pak is part of North Korea ’s Reconnaissance General Bureau , a military intelligence information mathematical group .
The charges are the first against a North Korean cyber intelligence officer , according to theWashington Post , which broke the tale along withABC News . Pak apparently has connections to legion attacks around the globe , including the WannaCry ransomware tone-beginning , and is also allegedly linked to Lazarus Group , which has orchestrated tone-beginning on the South Korean political science .
The U.S. Treasury Department is also reportedly quick to issue new countenance against the culprit of the attack , though it ’s not at once clear how many people will be targeted . Both the Justice Department and the Treasury Department did not at once respond to requests for gossip from Gizmodo .
When Sony Pictures ’s internal waiter were hacked in November of 2014 , expose other edits of various television display and numberless sensitive e-mail , there was meditation that the North Koreans may have been behind it as retaliation for the movie The Interview . That comedy motion-picture show picture a graphic character assassination of Kim Jong Un , the North Korean drawing card , and was tell on by the country .
The WannaCry ransomware onset target anyone using Windows computers in May of 2017 with demand to ship cryptocurrency . The cryptoworm hijack computing equipment and told drug user that they could get their data back if they sent money . Microsoft liberate a patch to defend against WannaCry , but over $ 130,000 was sent to the cyber-terrorist before the ordeal was over .
President Trump , for his part , has been on intimate terms with the North Korean dictator ever since their joint photo - op at a historic top in June of this yr . Trump even sent out a tweet this morningthanking Kimfor saying decent affair about him . These new bursting charge will surely put a hamper on Trump ’s ability to get in bottom with North Korea .
[ Washington Post ]
Update 2:03pm ET : The DOJ hasofficially announced the chargesin a mechanical press press release on its situation .
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