A North Korean national has been charged over his alleged role in a conspiracy involving ransomware attacks on U.S. hospitals and health care providers, as well as the U.S. Army and NASA, according to a July 25 press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
A grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, returned an indictment earlier in the week, charging Rim Jong Hyok and outlining a scheme in which he and his associates allegedly extorted U.S. health care institutions and laundered the ransom proceeds to fund further cyber intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities worldwide, according to the DOJ.
