Counterhacker exposes DPRK unit that made $1M a month working IT jobs
The North Korean IT workers coordinated crypto payments through a server using a shared, easy-to-guess password “123456.”
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The North Korean IT workers coordinated crypto payments through a server using a shared, easy-to-guess password “123456.”
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