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Shea Cotton
Shea Cotton is a Research Associate at the Middlebury Institute at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
The Lazarus Group, North Korea’s premier hacking team, appears to have started using ransomware to attack victims and extort money out of them, according to a recent analysis by Kaspersky Labs, a cybersecurity company.
Ransomware attacks typically involve deploying malware on a computer system that blocks access to it unless a ransom is paid. While DPRK hackers have been linked to ransomware attacks before, the tactics have changed — and so have the rules around paying ransoms.