North Korea Is Not Crazy

Recorded Future's Insikt Group assesses North Korean cyber operations as deliberate state-directed activity—linking RGB/Bureau 121 and Lazarus Group to major incidents such as the Bangladesh Central Bank SWIFT heist and the WannaCry ransomware campaign—and places these actions within North Korea's asymmetric military strategy and ‘self-financing’ criminal programs, warning of continued ransomware and destructive operations against financial, government, and critical infrastructure sectors.