Transcript. Hello and welcome to today's online intelligence briefing focusing on North Korea as a threat actor and covering the country's nuclear, missile and cyber threats.

In a bid to strengthen and increase its cyber attacks, North Korea has almost doubled the number of its cyber warriors over the past two years, military sources say. The Korea Times.

US, Japan, South Korea step up efforts to counter North Korea cyber-threats. The three allies have expressed concerns about ‘malicious’ cyber-activities in support of Pyongyang’s banned ...

North Korea's defense ministry has lashed out at a recent joint aerial exercise staged by Japan, the United States and South ...

Even during a pandemic, North Korea will leverage its cyber prowess alongside China and Russia as it reportedly attempted to hack and steal funds from pharmaceutical companies researching COVID-19 ...

“North Korea’s nuclear and military programmes are long-term threats, but its cyber threats are immediate, realistic threats,” said Oh Il-seok, a researcher at the Institute for National ...

FireEye's analysis of the North Korean financial hacking group it has dubbed APT38 is an important reminder that the Hermit Kingdom's cyber skills should not be underestimated. As The New York ...

It turns out that North Korea isn't just a nuclear threat. It's also a cyberthreat, and in some ways, this may be more frightening. Launched largely anonymously, cyberattacks can cripple essential ...

North Korea's malicious cyber activities threaten the United States and its allies and will be included in an ongoing review of U.S. policy toward the country, State Department spokesman Ned Price ...

In February 2025, a South Korean supplier for a major domestic conglomerate became one of the latest casualties in a rapidly escalating wave of cyberattacks. The ransomware group Lynx stole more than ...

TOKYO -- Japan will expand its cyber defense unit by more than fourfold to about 4,000 members, looking to counter China and North Korea's bigger forces as part of the government's new National ...