SOUTH KOREAN AUTHORITIES HAVE busted an alleed spy ring run by a North Korean handler, who remains at large.
Two men have been arrested so far in connection with the ring. One of them, identified only as “Lee”, is
reportedly
the chief executive of a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. The
other man, a Republic of Korea Army officer, is identified as “Captain
B.” in court documents.
Lee was arrested on April 2, while
Captain B. was arrested on April 15. They are facing charges of
violating South Korea’s 1948 National Security Act. Prosecutors alleged
that the two men divulged to their North Korean handler the log-in
credentials to the online command-and-control portal of the Republic of
Korea Armed Forces. The men are accused of having received substantial
financial compensation in return for their services.
According to the prosecution, Lee was
approached in July 2021 by a North Korean intelligence officer, who
recruited him to work for North Korean intelligence. In August of the
same year, Lee approached Captain B., and recruited as a subcontractor,
with the promise of substantial financial compensation in the form of
bitcoin. Captain B. then began giving military secrets to Lee, who
passed them on to the North Koreans.
Eventually, Lee’s handler allegedly
provided him with a miniature camera hidden inside an electronic watch.
Lee gave this spy device to Captain B., along with a hacking device
hidden inside a flash drive, which is commonly known as a “poison tap”.
This device gave the North Korean handler access to the laptop used by
the men to access the South Korean military’s command-and-control
portal. The two alleged spies were compensated with nearly $600,000 in
bitcoin for their services.
South Korean authorities claim that the
North Korean handler of the spy ring, as well as a man who worked as a
courier between the handler and the two agents, remain at large. Public
court documents do not specify the kind of information that was
allegedly accessed by the North Koreans as a result of this breach.
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