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Earlier this year,
two hackers broke into a computer and soon realized the significance of
what this machine was. As it turned out, they had landed on the computer
of a hacker who allegedly works for the North Korean government.
The two hackers decided to keep digging
and found evidence that they say linked the hacker to cyberespionage
operations carried out by North Korea, exploits and hacking tools, and
infrastructure used in those operations.
Saber, one of the hackers involved, told
TechCrunch that they had access to the North Korean government worker’s
computer for around four months, but as soon as they understood what
data they got access to, they realized they eventually had to leak it
and expose what they had discovered.
“These nation-state hackers are hacking
for all the wrong reasons. I hope more of them will get exposed; they
deserve to be,” said Saber, who spoke to TechCrunch after he and cyb0rg published an article in the legendary hacking e-zine Phrack, disclosing details of their findings.
There are countless cybersecurity
companies and researchers who closely track anything the North Korean
government and its many hacking groups are up to, which includes
espionage operations, as well as increasingly large crypto heists and wide-ranging operations where North Koreans pose as remote IT workers to fund the regime’s nuclear weapons program.
In this case, Saber and cyb0rg went one
step further and actually hacked the hackers, an operation that can give
more, or at least different, insights into how these government-backed
groups work, as well as “what they are doing on a daily basis and so
on,” as Saber put it.
The hackers want to be known only by their
handles, Saber and cyb0rg, because they may face retaliation from the
North Korean government, and possibly others. Saber said that they
consider themselves hacktivists, and he name-dropped legendary
hacktivist Phineas Fisher, responsible for hacking spyware makers FinFisher and Hacking Team, as an inspiration. "
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/hackers-who-exposed-north-korean-government-hacker-explain-why-they-did-it/
