US sanctions North Korean ‘Kimsuky’ hackers after surveillance satellite launch

The U.S. partnered with several nations in the Pacific to hand down sanctions on North Korea — particularly the country’s Kimsuky cyber espionage group — after the country launched a surveillance satellite last week. On Thursday evening, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned eight North Korean agents for

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