The U.S. Justice Department has launched a new unit tasked with countering cyber threats, including from North Korean hackers, a move that one former U.S. intelligence official said was “a long time coming.”

The new National Security Cyber Section under the National Security Division (NSD) is aimed at strengthening intragovernmental coordination against the growing dangers posed by adversaries’ illicit cyber activities, the Justice Department stated in a press release on Tuesday.

“This new section will allow NSD to increase the scale and speed of disruption campaigns and prosecutions of nation-state threat actors, state-sponsored cybercriminals, associated money launderers and other cyber-enabled