South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) says it has uncovered a network of illegal sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
South Korea.- The <\/strong>National Intelligence Service (NIS) claims to have uncovered a network of illegal online gambling websites allegedly operated by a North Korean entity affiliated with the Workers’ Party. Gyonghung Information Technology reportedly created the sites and sold them to a South Korean cybercrime group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Based in Dandong, a Chinese border town adjacent to North Korea’s Sinuiju, Gyonghung Information Technology claims to have 15 staff. According to the NIS, it received $5,000 for each website along with a monthly maintenance fee of $3,000 and additional payments ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 based on traffic. The payments were facilitated through Chinese bank accounts and PayPal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NIS said it suspects that Gyonghung operated under Bureau 39, a branch of the North Korean party responsible for managing leader Kim Jong-un’s funds and had obtained personal data from website users through malicious code.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NIS says it obtained photographic and video evidence showing the identities of Gyonghung staff and their use of fake personas as Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) says it has uncovered a network of illegal sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) has uncovered an illicit online gambling network allegedly operated by Gyonghung Information Technology, a North Korean entity affiliated with the Workers\u2019 Party and Bureau 39. This network reportedly sold gambling sites to a South Korean cybercrime group, facilitating payments via Chinese bank accounts and PayPal, and exfiltrating user data through malicious code.","focusai_entities":"National Intelligence Service (NIS), Gyonghung Information Technology, Workers\u2019 Party, Bureau 39, Kim Jong-un, PayPal","focusai_location":"South Korea, North Korea, China, Dandong, Sinuiju","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.97), operator_casino (0.85), tech_data (0.93), payments_fraud_aml (0.96), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement?","query":"What specific international cooperation mechanisms are being activated by the NIS to dismantle the financial infrastructure supporting this North Korean illicit gambling network, particularly concerning the Chinese bank accounts and PayPal transactions?"},{"label":"Data Exfiltration Impact?","query":"Beyond the financial illicit flows, what is the estimated scale and sensitivity of personal data exfiltrated by Bureau 39 via the malicious code, and what are the long-term implications for affected South Korean citizens and data protection regulations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777013193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777013193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013212,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013193\/revisions\/777013212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}