The hackers appear to have gone after the bank’s networks with custom-made North Korean malware, according to a technical report on the apparent breach obtained by The Daily Beast. It was around February of 2020 when the hackers, suspected of working for North Korea’s military intelligence agency-the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB)-are believed to have targeted the networks of Bank Rakyat Indonesia, cybersecurity researchers that have studied the malware culprit told The Daily Beast. In the latest efforts to fund Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear ambitions, hackers suspected of working for the North Korean government appear to have slithered their way into the computer networks of an Indonesian bank in an apparent attempt to pull off a megaheist to fund regime goals, The Daily Beast has learned.
Think Ocean’s 11-only the robbers are cash-starved, nuke-thirsty North Koreans and their weapons are keyboards, not explosives and guns. Hackers who stole tens of millions of dollars to fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in 2016 tried hitting another bank last year, The Daily Beast has learned.
The mystery grows from there.on North Korea Eyed in Brazen Bank Hack Shannon Suspected North Korean govt hackers, starved for cash w/ sanctions, appear to have gone trying to hack this bank last year w/ custom-made malware to fund regime goals & update NK’s nuclear weapons.
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