Report: Inside North Korea’s network, NSA saw signs of Sony attack

The U.S. National Security Agency has had a secret foothold for years in North Korea’s networks and saw signs of the Sony Pictures Entertainment attack but only in retrospect grasped its reach and depth, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The spy agency has worked for at least four years to infiltrate networks inside North Korea and those in China and Malaysia favored by the country’s hackers, the newspaper reported, citing former U.S. and foreign officials and a newly disclosed NSA document published by Der Spiegel.

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