The cyber threat from Pyongyang

The cyber threat from Pyongyang

Poverty-stricken North Korea spends a lot of its national resources on the military, including cyber, capabilities. Its cyber units, especially Bureau 121, are assumed to possess sophisticated cyber espionage capabilities, operating systems, and intrusion software; and the expertise to create highly...

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Main Author: Nah, Liang Tuang
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Commentary
Language:English
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Social sciences::Political science
Country and Region Studies
Technology and Future Issues
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165458
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Poverty-stricken North Korea spends a lot of its national resources on the military, including cyber, capabilities. Its cyber units, especially Bureau 121, are assumed to possess sophisticated cyber espionage capabilities, operating systems, and intrusion software; and the expertise to create highly destructive malware deliverable online to networked computers, or to standalone systems autonomous of the internet. Military and national security planners must implement relevant threat mitigation measures in the face of Pyongyang’s cyber offensives.

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