russian telecommunications firm transtelecom appears to have begun providing a new internet connectioning an already existing link from china. leisha sa ntorelli has more from singapore. we said it is an interesting development. it certainly changes things somewhat, doesn't it? north korea has restricted access to the internet for years, but they have actually had china provide the link. this news comes from a research group called 38 north. they are part of thejohn group called 38 north. they are part of the john hopkins group called 38 north. they are part of thejohn hopkins university. they say a russian firm appears to be providing north korea with another internet connection. the report says the new connection comes from tra nstelecom the new connection comes from transtelecom which the new connection comes from tra nstelecom which is the new connection comes from transtelecom which is headquartered in moscow and it is owned by a russian state owned railway km. it comes following reports that the us is targeting north korean infrastructure. it looks like the battle of words maybe

or now based on the fact that russian state-owned company transtelecom is now working with north korea, i mean, you could have those kinds of thefts directly and indirectly. they're kind of vague in terms of who did it and where the smoking gun is. but after you go after our power grid and you shut it down, that's a little more direct of an attack. that's kind of a declaration here. >> if you're trying to track back technically looking at who's doing it, it's going to be the same technical means to see where the attack is coming from. you rarely see the last hop to an attack actually come from the bad actor's computer. they're going to compromise someone else's computer. a lot of the attacks that happen in the u.s. that are based from overseas, the attacking computer is actually in the u.s. but it's compromised, it's a bot. from that standpoint it could come from anywhere. in terms of the motivations, we have seen the lazarus group over the past couple years focus on financial gain that has coincided with when the sanctions have gotten worse. the ransomware, wanna cry, there was some s