The Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment against three North Korean military hackers for participating in a series of cyberattacks, including the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment; creating the notorious WannaCry ransomware virus; spear-phishing US defense contractors; and hacking several cryptocurrency exchanges. These latest charges expand the government's 2018 case, adding two new defendants as well as additional schemes, in what the DOJ alleges is a "wide-ranging criminal conspiracy" to extort $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency from banks and companies globally.
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