Hackers. File photoUN, May 26.The United States is proposing to freeze the assets of the North Korean cyber structure Lazarus Group, which allegedly attacked, among other things, Russian defense companies and enterprises in the energy sector, follows from the draft American resolution in the UN Security Council. Voting on the project is scheduled for Thursday, a source in the Security Council told RIA Novosti earlier. The project proposes to reduce the allowable volumes of supplies of oil and oil products to North Korea as punishment for the next missile launches by the DPRK. In addition, the text, a copy of which is at the disposal of RIA Novosti, contains the name of the person, as well as a number of structures whose assets are proposed to be frozen. , according to the authors of the resolution, at one time carried out activities against Russian institutions. Lazarus Group, according to the United States, specializes in cyber espionage, theft of data, money and destructive malicious operations. «This malicious cyber group, established by the DPRK back in 2007, is subordinate to the 110th Research Center of the 3rd Bureau of the Main Intelligence Agency. The 3rd Bureau is also known as the 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau and is responsible for many of the DPRK's cyber operations,» the 3rd Bureau said. 
The US offered a reward for information about alleged hackers from Russia According to the authors, one of the goals of the Lazarus Group is to gain access to confidential military and government networks, as well as private sector networks in a number of industries. «The information obtained allows the DPRK to circumvent sanctions and violate relevant Security Council resolutions,» the text says. In 2020, the Lazarus Group attacked critical infrastructure in India using the «DTrack» malware, the authors write. conducted cyber operations against German and Russian defense companies, as well as the Russian energy and information technology sectors, as part of a cyber campaign called «ThreatNeedle,» the annex to the resolution notes. and a logistics company. An asset freeze is also proposed to two North Korean companies: Korea Namgang Trading Corporation and Haegumgang Trading Corporation. The annex to the resolution also refers to a frequent person who is invited to freeze assets and ban travel. This is Kim Soo Il, who was «located in about Vietnam by a representative of the Department of Military Industry, which oversees the development of ballistic missiles in the DPRK.» «As of early 2019, he was responsible for the export from the DPRK of goods subject to UN restrictions, such as anthracite coal and titanium ore concentrate. This trading activity brought foreign exchange to the DPRK regime,» the text says.
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