Suspected North Korean hackers who targeted job applicants prove more ambitious than first believed
A possible North Korean government-connected cyber-espionage campaign that targeted the defense industry stretched further than originally known when it was inititally uncovered this summer, researchers said. “Operation North Star” went beyond targeting South Korea to include Australia, India, Israel and Russia, McAfee said in a report out Friday. And its motives and methods seem to be clearer now, too, according to researchers. Israel’s Ministry of Defense had previously blamed Lazarus Group, which the U.S. government calls Hidden Cobra, for sending phony job offers in its defense sector — a tactic that lined up with McAfee’s earlier description of Operation North Star tactics. Additionally, the campaign used a previously undiscovered implant called Torisma that it deployed to burrow further into victims’ systems, McAfee said. The tactic represents the kind of digital spying technique that would have given hackers access to machines belonging to job applicants positioned near military organizations — just the kind of targets that a […]
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