An excerpt from the book "The Hacker and the State", which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world (Ben Buchanan/Wired)

Ben Buchanan / Wired:
An excerpt from the book “The Hacker and the State”, which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world  —  They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a “money mule” to pick up the cash.



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