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Feb 05, 2021 08:17 PM EST
In Telegram s Park Sabang, Jo Joo-bin, the key culprit, was sentenced to an additional five years in jail in a proceeding in which he was even further tried for similar offenses such as concealment of illegal proceeds. Jo Joo-bin was sentenced to 45 years in prison in addition to 40 years of imprisonment originally sentenced for the dissemination of sexual abuse.
Jo Joo-bin was senteced over illegal proceeds and sexual exploitation
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The alleged operator of secret sex abuse chatrooms says he lived the life of a devil as he was paraded outside a South Korean court. South Korean police took the unusual step of publicly identifying the 24-year-old accused leader of an online sexual blackmail ring after the case led to a national outcry in a country still focused on battling the coronavirus outbreak. Prosecutors will now decide whether to formally charge him. Al Jazeera’s Sara Khairat reports.
HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS
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Jan 28, 2021 11:16 AM EST
Google, the American multinational technology company, said it believed that North Korea hackers backed by Pyongyang have been posing as security bloggers or even using fake social media accounts in an attempt to steal information from field researchers.
The tech giant did not specify what kind of information the North Korea hackers were looking for or how successful they were.
According to the Associated Press, some experts mentioned that the series of attacks reflects Pyongyang s efforts in improving its cyber skills.
They also added that it is also a way of breaching widely used computer products, such as Microsoft s Windows 10 operating system and the Chrome internet browser of Google.