This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to journalist Jeff White. We're

going to be talking about North Korea's Cyber War. Believe it or not

North Korea has a very serious hacking team. They've been causing

disruption to South Korea and various other countries across the world. Also stealing lots and lots of money specifically in

cryptocurrency and funneling it all back to the Kim Jong-un regime.

It's a very interesting under-reported topic.

Jeff's gonna explain it to us. If you like what we're doing, please

support us at patreon.com slash popular front. I think a lot of people don't immediately think of you know high-tech hacking when it comes to

North Korea and basically it turns out that yes there is a very apt like very

well skilled hacking group in North Korea, and they go by the name, the

Lazarus Group, right? Maybe before we go into like the history and how this all started,

maybe you can just explain to us what is the

Lazarus group? Yeah, well fair enough I mean the Lazarus group themselves

probably don't refer to themselves as Lazarus group. That's the name they've been

given by others. But they are according to security researchers, North Korea's government hackers.

It's fair to say, most countries now, vast majority of governments have computer hackers working

on their behalf. We certainly do in the UK and unsurprisingly

perhaps given it's an incredibly militaristic society North Korea has a group of

government hackers what makes them slightly different is the way they act, the way they operate and their objectives,

which is often, as we'll probably see in the course of the interview, to try and steal cash to prop up

the North Korean regime.

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