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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by tyingq on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:13PM (#14557469)
Not sure ~$150k in Bitcoin is that interesting to the DPRK.
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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by losteric on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:04AM (#14557870)
They would have earned at least an order of magnitude more if the WannaCry killswitch hadn't been discovered.
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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by tyingq on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:10AM (#14557893)
Is ~$10M that interesting to a nation state, even a cash strapped one though? This is almost certainly not about the money.
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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by jpatokal on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:42AM (#14557966)
This is a country whose diplomats sell bootleg liquor and use diplomatic pouches to smuggle crystal meth, so, yes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11...

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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:15AM (#14558274)
There is a difference between a nation state its officials...
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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by captainmuon on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:13AM (#14558269)
Why not? It just has to be more than they invested in this attack.

It's not going to single-handedly pull the country out of recession, but it is probably the best utilisation of those computer-skilled individuals who developed it.

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Re:The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea by dx034 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:09AM (#14559289)
It is. They probably hoped for much more but sanctions by nearly all states in the world mean that North Korea desperately needs FX reserves. For a state where very few people have access to material that US$ can buy, a few hundred k$ can be a lot of money.
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