North Korean Hacking
DOJ Wants to Claw Back $2.67 Million Stolen by Lazarus Group
The DOJ wants to seize $2.67 million from the $69 million in crypto the North Korean-backed Lazarus Group stole in from the options exchange Deribit in 2022 and online gambling platform Stake.com ...
North Korean Group Uses Fake Job Offers to Target Energy, Aerospace Sectors
The North Korean-backed threat group UNC2970 is using spearphishing emails and WhatsApp messages to entice high-level executives in the energy and aerospace sectors to open a malicious ZIP file containing a fake ...
WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged
North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ ...
DOJ Shuts Down Another North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’
The DOJ shut down another "laptop farm" link to a North Korean fake IT worker scam that the country uses to illegally bring in money for its nuclear and ballistic weapons program ...
Suspect Indicted in North Korea Group’s Expansive Spying Operation
North Korea's APT45 threat group is using ransomware attacks on U.S. health care firms to fund an ongoing cyberespionage campaign to steal military and defense secrets that are fed back into the ...
KnowBe4 Unknowingly Hired Fake North Korean IT Worker
Cybersecurity company KnowBe4 unknowingly hired a North Korean operative who used a stolen identity and an AI-enhanced photo to get the software engineer job and then immediately began loading malware into the ...
North Korea IT Worker Scam Brings Malware and Funds Nukes
WTH? DPRK IT WFH: Justice Department says N. Korean hackers are getting remote IT jobs, posing as Americans ...
Backdoors and Miners Amid eScan Antivirus Backdoor Exploit
Recently, a wave of malware attacks has surfaced, exploiting vulnerabilities in the update mechanism of the eScan antivirus software. This eScan antivirus backdoor exploit distributes backdoors and cryptocurrency miners, such as XMRig, ...
