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Re:North Korea Hackers Step Up Bitcoin Attacks by woogiewonka on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:30AM (#15227092)
What a load of horseshit. From the referenced report:

"In 2016 we began observing actors we believe to be North Korean" - key phrase "we believe".

"Now, we may be witnessing a second wave of this campaign" - "may be".

The whole article is just fishing for connections with zero ties to anything solid. Even if they did connect two dots, we can now claim that a few people doing something is the entire North Korean regime? Pppplease.

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Re:North Korea Hackers Step Up Bitcoin Attacks by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:33AM (#15227121)
Well, if it is someone in NK, how likely is it that an ordinary citizen can do it?
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Re:North Korea Hackers Step Up Bitcoin Attacks by ringaroundthetx on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:37AM (#15228159)
Because its the same as "Russian hackers"

anyone in the world with a proxy can pretend to be the "state sponsored hacker"

I don't see how people are still falling for this, but hey it still works and you can make millions of dollars without prosecution.

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