North Korean authorities publicly rejected U.S. government claims that the country is connected to a financial cybercrime campaign targeting international ATMs, the DPRK's foreign ministry stated on Aug. 29.

A "press statement" issued by North Korea's so-called "National Coordination Committee for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism" claims that Washington recently linked North Korean actors to the case in order to deflect international attention away from U.S. cybercrimes.