North Korean authorities publicly rejected U.S. government claims that the country is connected to a financial cybercrime campaign targeting international ATMs, the DPRK’s foreign ministry stated on Aug. 29.

A “press statement” issued by North Korea’s so-called “National Coordination Committee for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism” claims that Washington recently linked North Korean actors to the case in order to deflect international attention away from U.S. cybercrimes.

“Nowadays, banking institutions of several countries are suffering tremendous losses from a large-scale cyber-attack, and it should be duly doubted if it has been done by the U.S., which is