The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) have issued a fresh warning on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) state-sponsored hackers targeting government, financial, and defense organizations via software supply chain attacks. As part of the observed supply chain attacks, the DPRK threat actors employed zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities, ..
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A North Korean threat group breached a Taiwanese software company and leveraged its systems to deliver malware to devices in North America and Asia, Microsoft reported this week. The threat actor is tracked by the tech giant as Diamond Sleet (Zinc). Previously described as a sub-group of the notorious Lazarus, the hacker gang has been ..
Enlarge / A television monitor at a train station in South Korea shows an image of the launch of North Korea’s Chollima 1 rocket Tuesday. Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 79 with North Korea launched a small military spy satellite Tuesday on the country’s first successful orbital launch since 2016. This, alone, ..
A new macOS malware probably used by North Korean hackers to target crypto exchanges has been found by security firm Jamf. The group behind the malware is thought to be the same group behind the recently reported KandyKorn malware. In its report on KandyKorn, Kaspersky describes the group as ‘Lazarus’, an overarching term for North ..
Security researchers uncover new macOS and Windows malware associated with the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group. The post North Korean Hackers Use New ‘KandyKorn’ macOS Malware in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. https://www.securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-use-new-kandykorn-macos-malware-i..
Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said. The Justice Department said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with ..
North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing roughly $53 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto exchange CoinEx, after a private key was leaked. The incident was identified on September 12, when the exchange observed “anomalous withdrawals from several hot wallet addresses” in which CoinEx was temporarily storing user assets. “It is currently preliminarily determined that ..
The FBI says that the North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus is responsible for the theft of $41 million in cryptocurrency from online casino and betting platform Stake.com. The incident occurred on September 4, when the Australian-Curaçaoan online platform Stake.com announced that hackers had stolen funds from its Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot ..
Dmitry Nogaev | Getty Images reader comments 9 with North Korea-backed hackers are once again targeting security researchers with a zero-day exploit and related malware in an attempt to infiltrate computers used to perform sensitive investigations involving cybersecurity. The presently unfixed zero-day—meaning a vulnerability that’s known to attackers before the hardware or software vendor has ..
Google’s threat hunting unit has again intercepted an active North Korean APT actor sliding into the DMs of security researchers and using zero-days and rigged software tools to take control of their computers. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday outed the government-backed hacking team’s social media accounts and warned that at least one actively ..