Korea Link and Bits Pieces

lot: But one thing is a lot less clear whether North Korea had anything to do with it, according to The Japan Times. Despite bits and pieces of evidence that suggest a possible North Korea link, experts say there is nothing conclusive yet and a lot of reasons to be dubious. It was the biggest in history, and it is a scary preview of things to come we are all going to have to get used to hearing the word ransomware. Why, for example, would Pyongyang carry out a big hack that hurt its two closest strategic partners more than anyone else And for what appears to be a measly amount of loot as of Friday, the grand total of ransom that had been paid was less than 100,000. Within days of the attack, the respected cybersecurity firms Symantec and Kaspersky Labs hinted at a North Korea link. North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador, Kim In Ryong, dismissed allegations that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK the country's official name was behind the recent wave of global cyberattacks as ridiculous. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.