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287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 9, 2022
"...It’s a sprawling underworld of crooks and fixers wielding extraordinary power and handling vast quantities of money, most of whom operate way beyond the reach of any police or law-enforcement agency.
At the centre of it all is a small team of highly ambitious hackers seemingly capable of penetrating their targets with unsettling stealth. Most of the victims in this book had no idea they were under attack until it was too late – their money gone, their data leaked and their computers trashed.
To understand North Korea’s alleged hacking campaigns is to understand the modern world of crime. It’s bewilderingly swift, knows no borders and relies on a shadowy network of accomplices. These digital offensives are perhaps the biggest threat to our ever-growing online existence..."
"The country is trapped in a financial death spiral triggered by a damaging series of events that has unfolded over the course of its relatively short history and accelerated rapidly in the last three decades. At one point North Korea ran so short of money that it failed in its most basic duty to its people, millions of whom are believed to have starved to death thanks to economic mismanagement and dogmatic adherence to ideological goals.
Simultaneously, its pursuit of nuclear weapons saw it hit with international sanctions – all of which will be explored in the following chapters. The net result is that one of the poorest countries in the world has little chance of making money legitimately. According to many experts, North Korea has instead turned to crime, in the past experimenting with forgery, smuggling and even crystal-meth production, before finally discovering a far more reliable and lucrative form of income: computer hacking."