In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1 billion raid on Bangladesh’s national bank and came within an inch of success – it was only by a fluke that all but $81 million of the transfers were halted, report Geoff White and Jean H Lee. But how did one of the world’s poorest and most isolated countries train a team of elite cyber-criminals?
BBC: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack
People watch a screen showing a broadcast of the completion ceremony of the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Mirae Scientists Street in Pyongyang on May 2, 2020.
