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Man arrested for alleged delivery of illegal data to North Korea

Man arrested for alleged delivery of illegal data to North Korea

Posted November. 18, 2014 07:10,   

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A 30-something former military officer was arrested by police for delivering to a North Korean spy Public Procurement Service`s electronic bidding materials and profits earned from an illegal online game business. The Gyeonggi Police Agency said Monday that it sent the man for imprisonment at Goyang Branch, Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office for allegations of violating national security law (preliminary plot helping spy, special infiltration and emergency escape, meeting and telecommunication).

The man is alleged of having accessed a North Korean spy five times in China`s Shenyang and Dandong from November 2011 to January last year, and for getting an order form North Korean through email to collect Public Procurement Service`s electronic bidding education materials and send them. Another allegation includes managing an online game automatic hunting program named "Dokdo" thus promoting sales and remitting profits worth 160 million won to the North Korean spy through an ethnic Korean living in China. The man, while executing an automatic execution program obtained a North Korean program at half the price of South Korean program, accessed a spy belonging to the North Korea Reconnaissance General Bureau.

In the process, the man is known to have planned additional crimes including spreading zombie PCs, hacking casino CCTV and a fund firm, and penetrating security network of a certain firm. He obtained a malicious program that makes a zombie PC from a North Korean spy and used a blog ad firm between January and March 2012 to distribute it online indiscriminately.

The man told police, "The North Korean program worked for a while but when failed I started to demand for materials besides money to the North." It was also confirmed that the man was ordered to collect the list of North Korean defectors from Hanawon, an education institution for North Korean defectors, and Public Procurement Service`s internal server IP, only to fail.