The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

North Korea, whose government is the only one on earth known to conduct nakedly criminal hacking for monetary gain, has run schemes in some hundred and fifty nations.Illustration by Anuj Shrestha Shimomura was a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest yakuza crime family in Japan. When one of his superiors asked him if he wanted to make a pile of fast money, he naturally said yes. It was May 14,

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> Around the turn of the millennium, North Korea supplied about forty per cent of Japan’s methamphetamines.