Experts who are responding to the hack told CNN they expect a long-term campaign to steal cryptocurrency to fund the North Korean regime, which often spends such stolen money on its nuclear and missile programs.
For three hours on Tuesday morning, the Pyongyang-linked hackers had access to the account of a software developer who manages the open-source software known as Axios. The hackers used that access to send malicious updates to any organization that downloaded the software during that time, setting off a scramble by the software developer to regain control of his account and by cybersecurity executives across the country to assess the damage.