A notorious North Korean hacker group, 'Kimsuky,' has been officially sanctioned by South Korea to attempt to stop its phishing cyberattacks.
released by the United States and South Korea has revealed that the group carries out "large-scale" cyber attacks on think tanks, academic institutions, and news outlets. According to Seoul's foreign ministry, the hackers are notorious for spearphishing campaigns wherein they impersonate legitimate journalists, academics, or individuals with credible connections to North Korean policy circles.
earlier this week. Large parts of the technology used were believed to be stolen as part of North Korean digital espionage from groups like "Kimsuky." “These North Korean cyber actors are known to conduct spear phishing campaigns posing as real journalists, academics, or other individuals with credible links to North Korean policy circles,” reads the advisory report.
“Once DPRK cyber actors establish engagement with a target, the actors attempt to compromise the account, device, or network belonging to the target by pushing malicious content in the form of a malicious macro embedded within a text document,” it said. “This document is either attached directly to the email or stored in a file hosting service, such as Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
"Kimsuky" has allegedly been behind several large-scale cyberattacks in South Korea in recent years, including the theft of the personal data of 830,000 people at the Seoul National University Hospital in 2021. They were also implicated in a cyberattack on South Korea’s state-backed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation, in 2014.
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