In this article the justice department accused 3 North Koreans of hacking scores and financial institutions. The U.S fund the North Korean government and American Corporations like Sony Pictures Entertainment. Park Jin-hyok , Jong Chang-hyok , and Kim I1 were the 3 that justice department accused. In 2018 they hacked Sony pictures Ent that crippled the company , cyberattacked Britain's National Health services , and attacked Bangladeshi Central Bank. They were accused of stealing $1.3 billion and digital currencies from financial institutions and companies. To prevent this from happening we can use strong secured passwords and managing the system like updating or to hire professionals to look over the system.
In this article Kia motors America suffered from a network outage on Saturday that affected dealers to have the ability to order vehicles , parts , and a smartphone app that owners use to start/warm-up vehicles. Kia and Hyundai motors both said they had no evidence of what caused the problems by ransomware. It was reported Wednesday that a ransomware gang Doppelpaymer demanded $20 million from Hyundai to decode scrambled data. Kia Denied ransomware attack as it recovers from day-long outages. we can prevent this attack by having back-ups like pins , taking time to update your software , and creating strong passwords all can prevent ransomware attacks.