North Korea Has Hackers for Hire, Agencies Warn
The R Street Institute’s Kathryn Waldron offered a simple reason the government might be seeing a surge in actions from North Korea that could have inspired the alert.
“If COVID-19 related measures, like closing the border [with China, its main trading partner and lifeline] are hurting North Korea economically, the DPRK may be encouraging hackers to increase their activity for monetary gain,” she told Nextgov.
