Photo from Asia Daily WirePentagon Warns North Korea Could Become A Hacker Haven -- Danger Room
North Korea is barely connected to the global internet. But it’s trying to step up its hacker game by breaking into hostile networks, according to a new Pentagon report.
“North Korea probably has a military computer network operations (CNO) capability,” assesses the Pentagon’s latest public estimate (.PDF) of the military threat from North Korea.
So far, suspected North Korean cyber efforts are more like vandalism and espionage than warfare — as with most so-called “cyberattacks” not related to the U.S./Israeli Stuxnet worm. But the Pentagon believes Pyongyang is going to lean into network attacks in the future, largely out of necessity.
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Update: Pentagon: Pyongyang Likely to Seek Foreign Help With Cyberwarfare -- Nextgov
My Comment: It is hard to see a country like North Korea .... with a limited communications network and strict controls on all of it computers .... being a cyber threat. But according to the Pentagon .... they are working on it.