North Korean programmer charged for Sony, WannaCry attacks and more

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that it had unsealed a criminal complaint (PDF) charging a North Korea regime-backed programmer, Park Jin Hyok, with being part of a team that launched multiple cyberattacks. Make that big, dreaded, infamous cyberattacks, including unleashing the global WannaCry 2.0 ransomware in 2017, the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures, and the 2016 $81m cyber heist that drained Bangladesh’s central bank.

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