North Korea Is Evading Sanctions By Animating Max And Amazon Shows

WIRED, Ars Technica
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 6:42am

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) For almost a decade, Nick Roy has been scanning North Korea’s tiny Internet presence, spotting new websites coming online and providing a glimpse of the Hermit Kingdoms’ digital life. However, at the end of last year, the cybersecurity researcher and DPRK blogger stumbled across something new: signs North Koreans are working on major international TV shows. In December, Roy discovered a misconfigured cloud server on a North Korean IP address containing thousands of animation files.

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