Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain): Kumio: North Korea Has Successfully Compromised 1640 Companies Across 57 Countries Globally

Kumio: North Korea Has Successfully Compromised 1640 Companies Across 57 Countries Globally According to WIRED, Vangelis Stykas, CTO at cybersecurity firm Kumio, revealed that after maintaining access to North Korean hackers' command-and-control servers for 22 months, he discovered that North Korean hackers have compromised 1,640 companies across 57 countries using fake job interview lures. Among them, 700 to 800 organizations suffered highly damaging intrusions, including root access to servers, AWS permissions, and cryptocurrency wallet keys. The research highlights that hackers maintained a laser focus on cryptocurrency theft, while lax access controls among external contractors vastly amplified the blast radius of these breaches.