Backdoor into Cryptocurrency Applications. Haven't we seen this before in dealing with Promis software stolen from Inslaw then used in Education and Healthcare? How do you suppose they create their vast web? Cyber Espionage and Bin Laden's share.
Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers Delivers Remarks on the National Security Cyber Investigation into North Korean Operatives
The indictment adds to the list of victims since 2018, including continued cyber-enabled heists from banks on four continents targeting over $1.2 billion.
DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) cyber threat has followed the money and turned its revenue generation sights on the most cutting edge aspects of international finance, including through the theft of cryptocurrency from exchanges and other financial institutions, in some cases through **the creation and deployment of cryptocurrency applications with hidden backdoors.**
> Remember where hidden backdoors came into play?
** an acronym for Prosecutors' Management Information System, for use in law enforcement record keeping and case-monitoring activities.
** The US intelligence community took the PROMIS software and added a hidden "backdoor" for monitoring banking transactions and money laundering.
** Systematics was the firm that the National Security Agency (NSA) used to get the PROMIS software with the hidden backdoor into the hands of banks worldwide.
Some software stolen from Inslaw (Institute for Law and Social Research) by the DOJ.
Then it was put into various programs to gain access to children's health through a program called Head Start.
If you're not familiar, this is a government program,
Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
So all of our files consisted of data collection as it was also used for pupil records and management systems.
An October 16 FOX News report by correspondent Carl Cameron indicating that convicted spy, former FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, had provided a highly secret computer software program called Promis to Russian organized crime figures - who in turn reportedly sold it to Osama bin Laden - may signal a potential intelligence disaster for the United States.
Bin Laden's reported possession of Promis software was clearly reported in a June 15, 2001 story by Washington Times reporter Jerry Seper. That story went unnoticed by the major media. In it Seper wrote, "The software delivered to the Russian handlers and later sent to bin Laden, according to sources, is believed to be an upgraded version of a program known as Promis - developed in the 1980s by a Washington firm, Inslaw, Inc., to give attorneys the ability to keep tabs on their caseloads. It would give bin Laden the ability to monitor U.S. efforts to track him down.
It also gives him access to databases on specific targets of his choosing and the ability to monitor electronic-banking transactions, easing money-laundering operations for himself or others, according to sources."
I had tracked evidence of Promis software being used for electrical system design and health.
For example. ..
PROMIS® (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) is a set of person-centered measures that evaluates and monitors physical, mental, and social health in adults and children. It can be used with the general population and with individuals living with chronic conditions.
Now back to AG John Demers and the Cyber Investigation into North Korean Operatives.
As will be described in more detail by my colleagues, the Department has obtained custody over a dual-U.S./Canadian national who organized the laundering of millions of dollars stolen by the DPRK hackers. He has admitted his role in these criminal schemes in a plea agreement, and he will be held to account for his conduct.
The Department was also able to seize and expects to ultimately return almost $2 million stolen by the DPRK hackers from a New York-based financial services company. This follows on similar seizure actions announced in March and August 2020, in which with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia seized and froze approximately $8.5 million of cryptocurrency.
the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with the assistance of the Department of the Treasury, are releasing a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory and Malware Analysis Report regarding the DPRK’s malicious cryptocurrency applications.
These conspirators described in today’s indictment are alleged to have been working, at times, from locations in China and Russia. The DPRK has also utilized Chinese over-the-counter cryptocurrency traders and other criminal networks to launder the funds.
The Department’s criminal charges are uniquely credible forms of attribution — we can prove these allegations beyond a reasonable doubt using only unclassified, admissible evidence. And they are the only way in which the Department speaks. If the choice here is between remaining silent while we at the Department watch nations engage in malicious, norms-violating cyber activity, or charges these cases, the choice is obvious — we will charge them.
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/assistant-attorney-general-john-c-demers-delivers-remarks-national-security-cyber?fbclid=IwAR2JQwf8WU-CvB1gOyreiBY1OxnwOynRtAT2HkjHwVTtwHE1cShiJDYBtDU
https://steemit.com/prism/@artistiquejewels/prism-did-it-come-from-promis-software-stolen-by-a-government-agency-history-of-comms-and-devices-for-info-gathering-evidence-of
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