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North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say


Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.

The country’s hackers and scammers have stolen and extorted billions of dollars to help fund its military ambitions in recent years, including from huge cryptocurrency heists. In early 2022, the FBI issued a 16-page alert warning companies that remote North Korean freelance IT workers were infiltrating businesses to earn money they could funnel back home. However, he says, increasingly there is a greater crossover between North Korean IT workers and individuals who are members of known hacking groups or classified as advanced persistent threats (APTs).

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