9. North Korea’s CIA: Inside Kim’s Crime Family (Ep 1)

The Rest Is Classified

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How did a group of North Korean cyber criminals manage to pull off the biggest bank heist in history? Did Kim Jong Un really orchestrate the murder of his own brother? And what does it take to keep an authoritarian state afloat? A seemingly innocuous spearfishing email lands in the inbox of an unsuspecting employee at the Central Bank of Bangladesh. Months of patient digital hacking follow, all masterminded by a team of cyber criminals within North Korea’s shadowy spy service. But how did they manage it? Listen as David and Gordon uncover how the North Korean state created one of the world’s most dangerous crime syndicates. Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ www.nordvpn.com/restisclassified It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @triclassified Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.3	I'm Gordon Carrera. That was the text of what's called a spear fishing email, a targeted email
1:41.0	sent to employees of the Central Bank of Bangladesh by cyberoperatives of the
1:46.2	North Korean government. They were the nose under the tent of the largest cyber heist ever attempted.
1:52.9	If successful, it would have been one of the biggest bank robberies in history.
1:57.2	Well, that's right. I'm David McCloskey, and Gordon, I think we're going to talk today about
2:01.8	something that maybe doesn't immediately seem like a spy story. It's a bank robbery. It's a
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