{"id":56682,"date":"2024-07-26T07:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/north-korean-chap-charged-for-attacks-on-us-hospitals-military-nasa-and-even-china\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:59:58","slug":"north-korean-chap-charged-for-attacks-on-us-hospitals-military-nasa-and-even-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/north-korean-chap-charged-for-attacks-on-us-hospitals-military-nasa-and-even-china\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA \u2013 and even China"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged a North Korean national over a series of ransomware attacks on stateside hospitals and healthcare providers, US defense companies, NASA, and even a Chinese target.<\/p>\n

An indictment<\/a> [PDF] named Rim Jong Hyok as a participant in “a conspiracy to hack and extort US hospitals and other health care providers, launder the ransom proceeds, and then use these proceeds to fund additional computer intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities worldwide.”<\/p>\n

Rim allegedly used malware developed at North Korea’s top military intelligence outfit \u2013 the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) \u2013 which the indictment states runs a cyber unit that’s been identified variously as Andariel, Onyx Sleet, and Silent Chollima. Andariel is known to have targeted ERP systems<\/a>, Onyx Sleet has gone after<\/a> DevOps environments, and Silent Chollima is linked<\/a> to deployments of the Maui ransomware.<\/p>\n