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Podcast: Crime World
Episode: BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The truth behind North Korea's cyber-crime gang 'The Lazarus Group'
Description: ***This episode was originally published in June 2022***It is a story that reads like the plot from a Hollywood movie and punches right into the heart of one of the most secretive regimes in the world. Hackers from the so-called โLazarus Groupโ first shut down Sony Studios when it attempted to screen a movie about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and then went on to attempt a daring theft of $1billion dollars from a Bangladesh Bank. But who are the Lazarus Group and how did they emerge from a secretive nation where only the chosen few...