Reuters: North Korean intelligence services have organized a hacker unit
Computer science professor Kim Hyun Kwang, who escaped from the DPRK , told Reuters that the country's intelligence unit has a special unit, Unit 180, which specializes in hacker attacks. “Department 180 is engaged in hacking attacks on financial institutions to withdraw money from bank accounts,” the agency quoted the professor as saying. According to him, some of his former students are involved in the activities of the “cyberarmy”.