North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that's distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code projects. The use of VS Code "tasks.json" to distribute malware...

North Korean Hacker Lands Remote IT Job, Caught After VPN Slip

New research from LevelBlue reveals how a suspected North Korean operative landed a remote IT role to fund national weapons programmes...

OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK information technology IT worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit...

CISA Flags Actively Exploited n8n RCE Bug as 24,700 Instances Remain Exposed

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 CVSS score: 9.9, concerns a case of...

AI as tradecraft: How threat actors operationalize AI

In this article 1. AI as an enabler for cyberattacks 2. Post-compromise misuse of AI 3. Emerging trends 4. Mitigation guidance for AI-enabled threats 5. Microsoft Defender detections Threat actors are operationalizing AI along the cyberattack lifecycle to accelerate tradecraft, abusing both...

AI as tradecraft: How threat actors operationalize AI

In this article 1. AI as an enabler for cyberattacks 2. Post-compromise misuse of AI 3. Emerging trends 4. Mitigation guidance for AI-enabled threats 5. Microsoft Defender detections Threat actors are operationalizing AI along the cyberattack lifecycle to accelerate tradecraft, abusing both...

North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new iteration of the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign, where the North Korean threat actors have published a set of 26 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages masquerade as developer tools, but contain functionality to extract the actua...

Phishing Attacks Against People Seeking Programming Jobs

This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When they run the code they are supposed to work on, it installs malware on their system. News article...

Sendmarc Releases DMARCbis Fireside Chat Featuring Co-Editor Todd Herr

Wilmington, North America, 24th February 2026, CyberNewswire...

Ukrainian National Sentenced to 5 Years in North Korea IT Worker Fraud Case

A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea's fraudulent information technology IT worker scheme. In November 2025, Oleksandr "Alexander" Didenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity...

Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations

Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base DIB sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. The tech giant's threat intelligence division...

Google Reports State-Backed Hackers Using Gemini AI for Recon and Attack Support

Google on Thursday said it observed the North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC2970 using its generative artificial intelligence AI model Gemini to conduct reconnaissance on its targets, as various hacking groups continue to weaponize the tool for accelerating various phases of the cyber...

North Korea-Linked UNC1069 Uses AI Lures to Attack Cryptocurrency Organizations

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC1069 has been observed targeting the cryptocurrency sector to steal sensitive data from Windows and macOS systems with the ultimate goal of facilitating financial theft. "The intrusion relied on a social engineering scheme involving a compromised...

DPRK Operatives Impersonate Professionals on LinkedIn to Infiltrate Companies

The information technology IT workers associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK are now applying to remote positions using real LinkedIn accounts of individuals they're impersonating, marking a new escalation of the fraudulent scheme. "These profiles often have verified...

HACK NDSU: A Real-World Event to Promote Student Interest in Cybersecurity

Hack NDSU let students scan, probe, and hack North Dakota State University's campus network, under professionals' supervision, providing an aspirational experience, potentially motivating them to enter the field. This paper provides a blueprint for educational hacking events against production...

CVE-2025-69100

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in fuelthemes North north-wp allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects North: from n/a through = 5.7.5...

CVE-2025-69099

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in fuelthemes North north-wp allows Object Injection.This issue affects North: from n/a through = 5.7.5...

CVE-2025-69099

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in fuelthemes North north-wp allows Object Injection.This issue affects North: from n/a through = 5.7.5...

CVE-2025-69100

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in fuelthemes North north-wp allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects North: from n/a through = 5.7.5...

CVE-2025-69100 WordPress North theme <= 5.7.5 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program 'PHP Remote File Inclusion' vulnerability in fuelthemes North north-wp allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects North: from n/a through = 5.7.5...