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A group of hackers is targeting defectors and journalists in South Korea with malware sent via popular chat apps and social networks, according to the cybersecurity firm McAfee. The “highly targeted” campaign beginning in 2017 used Facebook and KakaoTalk, one of South Korea’s most popular chat apps, to spread malware-laced phishing links to targets. The attacks show that “attackers are always looking for different ways to deliver malware,” McAfee’s Jaewon Min wrote. This particular group does not appear to have links to any existing cybercrime groups, the post says. Although McAfee offered no definitive answers on who is behind the campaign, the firm’s report did show links to North Korea in the form of an IP address in test log files on some Android devices connected to accounts used to spread the malware. Additionally, some words used in the code are almost exclusively used in North Korea, and the targets are all of great interest to the […]
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A group of hackers is targeting defectors and journalists in South Korea with malware sent via popular chat apps and social networks, according to the cybersecurity firm McAfee. The “highly targeted” campaign beginning in 2017 used Facebook and KakaoTalk, one of South Korea’s most popular chat apps, to spread malware-laced phishing links to targets. The attacks show that “attackers are always looking for different ways to deliver malware,” McAfee’s Jaewon Min wrote. This particular group does not appear to have links to any existing cybercrime groups, the post says. Although McAfee offered no definitive answers on who is behind the campaign, the firm’s report did show links to North Korea in the form of an IP address in test log files on some Android devices connected to accounts used to spread the malware. Additionally, some words used in the code are almost exclusively used in North Korea, and the targets are all of great interest to the […]
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