Kim's hack attack

North Korea targets UK

- CHRIS HUGHES

NORTH Korean hackers have begun a chilling cyber espionage campaign to steal military and nuclear secrets from the West.

Kim Jong Un's spies have backed the Andariel Group in trying to pinch sensitive and classified data, according to the UK, US and South Korea.

The global mission is a major threat to critical infrastructures of a number of western countries.

The Andariel Group has mostly targeted South Korea but now it has turned its sights on the western allies of Seoul.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre said the group has been compromising organisations to try to steal data.