North Korea's Bitcoin Shuro field

There is a joke online so to say -

A young boy wants a bitcoin for his father who invests bitcoin as a birthday present. Dad asked, "What? You want 15554 dollars? 14354 dollars is not a small sum of money! In the end you need $ 16,782 so much money?

Although it is a piece, but also accurately reflect the bitcoin minute heartbeat changes in the year.

So the question is, who is the most profitable person in this bitcoin storm? Is this mysterious Bitcoin founder Nakamoto? Known as the richest man in Bitcoin Li Xiao come? Or absolutely do not touch Bitcoin Buffett?

If you can only think of these people, then you may have overlooked an impressive and never forget youth smile:

That's right, that is, an expert on the Chinese Internet, entitled "Fat Xin".

In the past year, we have been surprised to find that North Korea, a country impoverished in our minds, actually has some connection with the high-tech synonym of bitcoin. Even the Western media have come to believe that North Korea is ushering in a nationwide push for Bitcoin and is likely to have an irreversible effect on the global virtual money market in 2018 ...

From the news of the media broke the news, our mysterious neighbors not only mining their own, but also massive use of hacking technology to implement international bitcoin theft and money laundering. As our eyes are drawn to nuclear weapons, a big net about bitcoin is likely to have been quietly woven.

At the end of the year, let's review the "wealth freedom" path of the great man in Baekdu.

Do it yourself, dig dig dig dig

On May 17, 2017, many blockchain data organizations detected a phenomenon: Bitcoin node activity from North Korea suddenly and exponentially increased from zero to hundreds of times a day.

Considering the North Korean country's restrictions on the Internet, especially civilian networks. The number of computers in the entire country is limited and the IP space is even more tense. The general public can only post some greetings to someone on some news and leader websites.

Under such circumstances, if it is said that North Korea's entrepreneurial team collectively opened the bitcoin project, it may be said that "the grave Weibo" - the ghost will not believe it.

Probably only one possibility is that the North Korean government or the military is carrying out bitcoin mining activities planned. Since then, North Korea's bitcoin activity data has been high. Some people think that North Korea began bitcoin mining just coincides with the WannaCry Razor virus outbreak of time coincides with the FBI may be considered behindhand, North Korea hopes to use its own mining to cover up the blackmail bitcoin.

Although more and more evidence shows that ransomware is eventually launched toward North Korean hacking organizations. However, it seems a little far-fetched to say that North Korea is applying "trying to hide away from each other". From the style of explanation for extreme events, North Korea's official is too lazy to explain anything to anyone, and Kim Jong-nam does not explain it. Is it bitter to bitcoin?

Therefore, a more probable truth should be that the DPRK has formulated a double insurance scheme of "owning fields and breeding seeds from neighboring countries and stealing food from neighboring countries." And from the end result, it seems to steal or grab, come faster ...

"Lazarus Madness": a year filled with extortion by North Korean hackers and the Internet

For most of 2017, we are not scouring the news of North Korea's nuclear weapons or the news of attacks by North Korean hackers.

Do not discuss nuclear weapons here, just hacker. In fact, the use of cyberwarfare by such authoritarians is not new. Qaddafi had set up a network of troops earlier, in the implementation of hacker attacks, but also responsible for advocacy and maintenance of the image of the leader, and even was found to pose as the navy to Qaddafi sing hymn.

Similar functions North Korea's network department is also responsible, such as being talked about one thing, we found that all pages in North Korea have a system, the function is to appear as long as the leaders of the name of the automatic font bold ...

Sorry, too many slots, do not hold back, let's talk back to bitcoin.

In June this year, the FBI released a survey report that the North Korean government has ordered hacker groups to launch attacks on the Internet for the past eight years. Targets include sabotaging military agencies, government websites and financial institutions in various countries of the world. One of the best-known events is probably the organization's attack on Sony, who at that time was making ugly North Korean leader films in 2014, resulting in a massive disclosure of Sony sources, Share price once dangerous.

However, there is a variety of evidences that this mysterious hacker organization, called "Lazarus" by the world media and the media, has shifted its focus to Bitcoin from 2016 onwards.

For example, it is reported that in July 2016, the North Korean hacker organization captured the user database of South Korean shopping site Interpark and requested a large amount of bitcoin from the website for exchange.

Such incidents are not uncommon throughout 2017 as banks and virtual currency exchanges in Britain, Bangladesh and Taiwan have all been exposed to attacks by suspected North Korean hackers in the Caribbean.

Of course, the most injured, without any doubt, can only be South Korea ...

In contrast with the Chinese government's restraint, Bitcoin has won tremendous popularity in South Korea. At present, South Korea has become the world's third-largest bitcoin exchange market after the United States and Japan. A lot of bitcoin reserves, the same language, coupled with a deep-seated hostility, there seems to be no reason why bitcoin in South Korea does not allow North Korean hackers to be emotionally charged.

A few days earlier, the BBC quoted South Korean intelligence agency NIS as saying the attack on Bithumb, the South Korean bitcoin exchange, the stolen value of 7.6 billion won bitcoin and the disclosure of 36,000 personal information. Later, hackers also extorted 6 billion won in exchange for the removal of these leaked personal information. The total amount involved amounted to 83 million yuan.

This is not the only unlucky mistake in South Korea. In recent times, at least three Bitcoin exchanges in South Korea have suffered many rounds of cyber attacks, losing thousands of bitcoin. Taking into account the soaring price of bitcoin, we can only determine that the great man Baotoushan had a nice Christmas.

At the moment, raiding trading platforms, stealing bitcoin, and then using user data to do some more has become the norm for these suspected North Korean hackers. Moreover, the means of committing crimes have matured time and again, and the amount involved is also growing.

As similar messages of this year have been pouring in, the outside world has also started to pay more attention to North Korea's hacker forces. It is said that North Korea has reached 7,000 hacker troops in 2017. These people have free access to the Internet, free and easy access to North Korea, and free access to high-level apartment buildings in Pyongyang. North Korean civilians dream of joining the group.