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The previously unreported campaigns represent one of several ongoing nation-state attempts to hack journalists, the researchers said.
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The ransomware has previously received little public scrutiny.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is attributing the campaign to hackers known as the Lazarus Group.
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The address received $600 million in Ethereum and other digital currency during the March attack, crypto-tracking company Chainalysis said.
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The hacking attempts are just the latest in the multiple ongoing hacking campaigns from the North Korean government.
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A U.S. court sentenced a Canadian man to 11 years in prison for his role in a global hacking and money laundering scheme allegedly spearheaded by North Korean cybercriminals. Ghaleb Alaumary, a 36-year-old Ontario native, was sentenced Wednesday to 140 months in federal prison and to pay more than $30 million in restitution after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the Justice Department announced. The defendant’s role involved providing bank accounts into which North Korean hackers could funnel stolen currency, and then recruiting individuals to withdraw cash from ATMs around the world. The millions of dollars came from sources including the 2019 theft of a Maltese bank, a 2018 fraud from Pakistan’s BankIslami, as well as a professional soccer team based in the U.K., according to the Justice Department. Alaumary was also reportedly connected to Ramon Abbas, a Nigerian Instagram influencer better known as “Hushpuppi” […]
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Suspected North Korean hackers have breached cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan, Europe, the U.S. and Israel in an effort to steal millions of dollars from the platforms in the last three years, according to a new private sector report. The analysis published Monday by the Israeli security firm ClearSky names Lazarus Group, which U.S. officials say works on behalf of the North Korean government, as the suspect in a hacking campaign that began with attackers scouting cryptocurrency exchange employees and ended with money leaving user accounts. Cryptocurrency helps North Korea blunt the financial impact of international sanctions, as virtual payment techniques are popular on black markets, difficult to trace and exist largely outside the global financial system. A United Nations panel in 2019 implicated North Korean hackers in the theft of $571 million from five cryptocurrency exchanges in Asia. Those hacks are “probably” done to fund North Korean “government priorities, such […]
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The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and the theft of roughly $200 million and attempted theft of more than $1.2 billion from banks and other victims worldwide. Continue reading U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million
The nation-state actor is looking to speed up vaccine development efforts in North Korea. Continue reading Lazarus Group Hits COVID-19 Vaccine-Maker in Espionage Attack
Lazarus Group is believed to be behind a spate of attacks that leverage stolen digital certificates tied to browser software that secures communication with government and financial websites in South Korea. Continue reading Hacked Security Software Used in Novel South Korean Supply-Chain Attack