Uncle Sam has infiltrated and knackered what it claims is a North Korea-operated botnet of hijacked Microsoft Windows computers. US prosecutors say Park Jin Hyok – a suspected Sony Pictures and WannaCry hacker living in Kim Jong Un’s hermit nation – built and managed the Joanap botnet, a globe-spanning network of commandeered systems, and used it to launch further cyber-attacks on various targets.

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