US and South Korea accuse North Korea of using hospital ransoms to fund more hacking

North Korean state hackers are using a variety of ransomware strains to attack healthcare organizations and other targets globally, with the goal of pulling in money to fund other operations, the U.S. and South Korea said Thursday. 

The two allies said “an unspecified amount of revenue from these cryptocurrency operations supports [North Korean] national-level priorities and objectives, including cyber operations targeting the United States and South Korea governments.”

Specific targets for those cyber operations include U.S. defense information networks and …

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