U.S. Unseals Criminal Complaint against North Korean Programmer for Cyber Attacks and Intruders

On September 6, 2018, the U.S. government announced the unsealing of a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court Central District of California (Los Angeles)  charging Park Jin Hyok (aka Jin Hyok Park and Pak Jin Hek), a North Korean citizen, for his participation in a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world resulting in damage to massive amounts of computer hardware, and the significant loss of data, money and other resources. According to the complaint Park participated in a government-sponsored hacking team known as the “Lazarus Group” and worked for a North Korean government front company, Chosun Expo Joint Venture (aka Korea Expo Joint Venture or “KEJV”), to support the DPRK government’s malicious cyber actions. The conspiracy’s malicious activities include the establishment of the malware used in the 2017 WannaCry 2.0 global ransomware attack; the 2016 theft of $81 million from…

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