The government of South Korea has announced sanctions against the North Korean cyber unit Bureau 313 and 15 employees of this organization.

It is known that Bureau 313 is part of the Department of Machine Engineering of the Workers' Party of North Korea, which has been under sanctions from the UN Security Council since 2016. The agency is accused of controlling weapon production and overseeing the ballistic missile program.

It is known that North Korean IT specialists are regularly sent to China, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Africa as employees of state organizations, hiding their status and receiving work orders from technology companies around the world, while some of them simultaneously engage in information theft and cyberattacks, according to an official statement from the Ministry of Justice of South Korea.$BTC $ETH $XRP