North Korean cyber espionage on defense companies
In recent years, North Korea's cyber espionage capabilities have expanded enormously and targeted hacker attacks have been carried out on international companies and authorities. The most recent incidents in which North Korean hackers obtained sensitive information from military and arms companies are particularly explosive. This shows how the internationally isolated regime is increasingly pursuing its military and geopolitical goals through cybercrime. The attacks also raise questions about the cybersecurity of Western countries, which are apparently more vulnerable to such attacks than previously thought. One example of this is the hacker attack on a German arms company. The North Korean hacker group...