Police stand guard at the residence of South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on January 3, 2025. JUNG YEON-JE / AFP South Korean investigators entered the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and began executing a warrant for his arrest Friday, January 3, over his failed martial law bid, the first … Read more
Dec 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cyber Espionage North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as recruiters to trick individuals looking for … Read more
Threat actors associated with the notorious North Korean hacking outfit Lazarus Group are now setting their sites on targets in the nuclear power sector, according to researchers with Kaspersky. The cybersecurity vendor reports that the hacking group has been seeking to compromise nuclear organizations as part of an effort to step up its game and … Read more
In its lust for stealing cryptocurrency and sensitive information, North Korean hackers are disguising themselves as remote IT workers, recruiters, and even venture capitalists. The increasingly sophisticated tactics being used by North Korea’s hackers was the topic at last month’s Cyberwarcon conference in Washington DC, where researchers described how billions of dollars in stolen cryptocurrency … Read more
Nov 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cryptocurrency The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Sapphire Sleet is estimated to have stolen more than $10 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of social engineering campaigns orchestrated over a six-month period. These findings come from Microsoft, which said that multiple threat activity clusters with ties to the … Read more
