The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) has one of the most active cyber warfare footprints of any nation on earth and appears obsessed with expanding its operations.
According to HP and reported by Techworld,North Korea doesn’t actually do that much from North Korea, relying instead of cells planted in other parts of the world, particularly China, and even inside sworn enemy South Korea.
As the company notes, the DPRK’s hacking Unit 121 (accused of hacking the US and South Korea) has a base in Pyongyang but depends on a named command post based in a hotel just over the border in China. This and other units such as Unit 110 (aka ‘DarkSeoul’) have carried out numerous cyber-operations, which accelerated quite dramatically in number during 2013 using the same Chinese proxies.