North Korea denies cyber attacks against South Korean officials

North Korea denied Sunday that carried out cyber attacks against South Korean officials who are his rivals. Spy agency of South Korea told lawmakers Friday that North Korea had recently intensified efforts cyber attack against them which succeeded in hacking a mobile of at least 40 national security officials, according to members of parliament of that country.

South Korea claims cyber attack North Korea which could be used for their own political purposes.South Korea was accused of making such claim of cyber attack in order to justify a controversial new law "anti-terrorist".

Earlier this week, the National Intelligence Service of South Korea also said North Korea had tried to hack into email accounts of railway workers in South Korea in an attempt to attack the control system of the transport system, although he said he had interrupted the attempted destruction of railway workers and closed their email accounts.

South Korea has been on high alert against the threat of cyber attacks from North Korea after it conducted a nuclear test in January and the launch of a long-range rocket last month.

North Korea has denounced the exercises as "nuclear war maneuvers" and threatened to respond with a full - fledged offensive. At the same time he denied previous accusations of South Korea. The
United States accused North Korea of a cyber attack against Sony Pictures in 2014 that led to the cancellation of a comedy based on the fictional assassination of leader Kim Jong Un.

American company lost $ 100 million fraud email

An American company that is not yet identified fraud made him last year for nearly $ 100 million by people who created a fake e-mail address in order to impersonate legitimate one of its suppliers, according to US authorities on Thursday.

The company had filed a civil forfeiture in federal court in Manhattan trying to recover about $ 25 million in the proceeds of fraud that took place in at least 20 bank accounts around the world.

Almost $ 74 million has been recovered and returned to the US firm, officials said. The FBI said in an alert companies issued last week that the companies had suffered $ 2.3 billion worldwide in losses email scams by transfers from October 2013 to February this year.

The lawsuit filed Thursday appears to be the biggest scam email I have seen, said Tom Brown, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan who is now CEO of the practice of cyber security Berkeley Research Group.

The scheme in question in the lawsuit Thursday took place between August and September and was identified after a bank based in Cyprus identified suspicious transfers, officials said.

According to the lawsuit, the authors carried out the scam by creating a fake email address that resembled the one of the sellers of the company in Asia.

Then individuals posing as a salesman while communicating with a professional services firm that was hired to handle the details and logistics of payments to suppliers of the US company, the lawsuit said.

Euro bank, which did not respond to an email seeking comment on its own initiative in September restricted almost $ 74 million of funds.

The remaining $ 25 million was laundered through other accounts, in cities such as Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Hong Kong, officials said.

Foreign governments, at the request of the US authorities have held 20 accounts worldwide receiving portions of the remaining stolen funds, which are now subject of the complaint, authorities said.