UN’s North Korea sanctions monitors hit by ‘sustained’ cyberattack


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Ethernet cables connect a router device inside a communications room at an office in London, U.K., on Monday, May 15, 2017. Governments and companies around the world began to gain the upper hand against the first wave of an unrivaled global cyberattack, even as the assault was poised to continue claiming victims this week. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

UNITED NATIONS: United Nations experts investigating violations of sanctions on North Korea have suffered a "sustained" cyberattack by unknown hackers with "very detailed insight" into their work, according to an e-mail warning seen by Reuters. 

The hackers eventually breached the computer of one of the experts on May 8, the chair of the panel of experts wrote in an e-mail to UN officials and the UN Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee, known as the 1718 committee. 

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