[sudeepj]

> That North Korea would be the prime suspect in a case of cyber-crime might to some be a surprise.

Really? This is actually well-known (atleast amongst security agencies) [1][2]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/cbb28ab8-8ce9-11e9-a24d-b42f641ec...

[2] https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/cybe...

[dagw]

It's well known among people who pay attention to these sorts of things, but a lot of otherwise well educated people seem to think that all of North Korea is a primitive backwater stuck in the 50s lacking any kind of technical sophistication.

[Clewza313]

The vast majority of the country (basically everything outside Pyongyang) is just that. But even in North Korea, the future is unevenly distributed.

[sometimesshit]

They have some Math people and I wonder why the regime didn't use state of art AI in their attacks.

They surly has the potential but I don't see they are fully using it.

[johncoltrane]

"To some"