Mikko is the Chief Research Officer at WithSecure. He is a global security expert, speaker, and author. Mikko has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired, and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford,and Cambridge.
Since the invasion of Ukraine on February 2022, Russia has faced an array of sanctions from the international community.
US and South Korean agencies have detailed the TTPs used by North Korean hackers to deploy "state-sponsored" ransomware on hospitals.
We suspect that this was an opsec fail at the start of their workday. There are VERY few IP addresses in North Korea, and they are directly controlled by the government.