{"id":7744,"date":"2019-08-07T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2019-08-07T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:36:26","slug":"north-korea-cyber-attacks-generate-2-billion-for-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7744","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Cyber Attacks Generate $2 Billion for Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is using cyberattacks on banks and cryptocurrency exchanges to fund its weapons programs, according to a UN Security Council report.<\/p>\n<p>The confidential report says Pyongyang has targeted banks and crypto-currency exchanges to collect cash.<\/p>\n<p>At least 35 reported instances in 17 countries of North Korea-affiliated actors attacking financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges are currently under investigation, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that North Korea&#8217;s attacks against crypto-currency exchanges allowed it to &#8220;generate income in ways that are harder to trace and subject to less government oversight and regulation than the traditional banking sector&#8221;.\\<\/p>\n<p>Experts are also investigating cyber-mining activity designed to earn foreign currency.<\/p>\n<p>The report also says North Korea has violated UN sanctions by means of illicit ship-to-ship transfers, as well as obtaining items related to weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is cut off from conventional\u00a0revenue sources by UN sanctions\u00a0and is forbidden from exporting coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is using cyberattacks on banks and cryptocurrency exchanges to fund its weapons programs, according to a UN Security Council report. The confidential report says Pyongyang has targeted banks and crypto-currency exchanges to collect cash. At least 35 reported instances in 17 countries of North Korea-affiliated actors attacking financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1203,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}