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The world once laughed at North Korean cyberpower

The country's primitive infrastructure is far less vulnerable to cyberretaliation, and North Korean hackers operate outside the country, anyway

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The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un (second from left), celebrated the national holiday on Saturday by bringing his nuclear scientists and engineers to Pyongyang and holding a banquet | Photo: Reuters

David E. Sanger, David D. Kirkpatrick & Nicole Perlroth | NYT
When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them. They were digitally looting an account of the Bangladesh Central Bank, when bankers grew suspicious about a withdrawal request that had misspelled “foundation” as “fandation.”

Even so, Kim Jong-un’s minions still got away with $81 million in that heist.

Then only sheer luck enabled a 22-year-old British hacker to defuse the biggest North Korean cyberattack to date, a ransomware attack last May that failed to generate much cash but brought down hundreds of thousands of computers across dozens of

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