AI-assisted North Korean hackers have become a bigger problem than people think

A security researcher who spent nearly two years quietly monitoring North Korean hacking operations dropped a bombshell at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

At the conference, he revealed that state-sponsored hackers have successfully breached 1,640 companies across 57 countries, with several hundred among them suffering severe compromises.

Root access to servers, AWS accounts and crypto keys

Vangelis Stykas, the CTO of cybersecurity firm Kumio, gained access after the hackers accidentally infected their own systems with malware. This blunder allowed Stykas to slip inside their command-and-control servers, access their Slack and Discord channels, and comb through roughly five terabytes of data.

According to Stykas, the level of access varied, but the worst breaches gave hackers total control, including root access to cloud servers, AWS accounts, and even master cryptographic keys for blockchain companies. 

He also publicly named several affected organizations that handled his disclosure well, including Coinbase, Uniswap Labs, and Boston Children’s Hospital.

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