North Korea

FBI Seizes Websites North Koreans Used To Impersonate American Companies

WASHINGTON DC - The FBI has seized multiple websites that North Korean operatives used to impersonate legitimate US and Indian businesses in a likely effort to raise money for the nuclear armed-North Korean regime, according to statements on the websites and security researchers who investigated the activity. All four websites identified by cybersecurity firm SentinelOne as

By |2024-11-23T11:33:46-05:00November 23rd, 2024|Cyber Defense, News|

Numerous Organizations Hacked After Installing Weaponized Open Source Apps

NORTH KOREA - Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising "numerous" organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday. ZINC—Microsoft's name for a threat actor group also called Lazarus, which

By |2022-10-02T15:05:22-04:00October 2nd, 2022|Cyber Defense|

North Korea is using Microsoft, Apple, Samsung tech in cyberattacks

SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company, said in a report Wednesday that North Korean hackers have used technology from Microsoft, Apple and Samsung to carry out cyberattacks. The isolated country has been behind major cyberattacks, including the 2017 WannaCry ransomware assault, which locked up thousands of computers across 150 countries and ensnared hospitals, universities and airports

By |2018-06-08T09:54:36-04:00June 8th, 2018|Cyber Defense|