The Security Ledger Podcast

The Security Ledger Podcast


North Korea’s widening Net, pricing the Equifax Hack & Dark Markets in Turmoil

November 19, 2017

In this week’s podcast, after a string of reports about North Korea’s growing forays onto sensitive corporate networks, we speak with Adam Meyers of CrowdStrike about the widening net of North Korean offensive hacking and how the Hermit Kingdom is playing the part both of cyber criminal and nation-state actor.  Also: we unpack the cost of the Equifax breach with Accenture and talk to Flashpoint about the turmoil on the deep, dark web following the shutdown of the AlphaBay marketplace.  The Security Ledger reported last week that North Korean hackers were making forays onto the networks of U.S. defense contractors. Our report, which cited a senior executive at a prominent aerospace firm, said that the hackers appeared to be interested in finding information about weapons systems deployed on the Korean peninsula.  That report was followed by a warning from the DHS and FBI about a campaign of hacks dubbed Hidden […]