ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows

The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCall to likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China. While prior versions of the backdoor hav...

The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea

New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. For millions of others, the internet simply doesn't exist...

North Korean Kimsuky Hackers Strike Again with Advanced Reconnaissance Malware

The North Korean advanced persistent threat APT group known as Kimsuky has been observed using a piece of custom malware called RandomQuery as part of a reconnaissance and information exfiltration operation. "Lately, Kimsuky has been consistently distributing custom malware as part of...

HookSpoofer A Novel Infostealer with Advanced Capabilities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary North Korea-linked hacking group Reaper has recently been observed engaging in surveillance of North Korean defectors. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow HiveForce Labs on LinkedIn...

Reaper, North Korean hacking group, targets defectors

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary North Korea-linked hacking group Reaper has recently been observed engaging in surveillance of North Korean defectors. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow HiveForce Labs on LinkedIn...

ScarCruft APT Mounts Desktop/Mobile Double-Pronged Spy Attacks

The North Korea-linked ScarCruft advanced persistent threat APT group has developed a fresh, multiplatform malware family for attacking North Korean defectors, journalists and government organizations involved in Korean Peninsula affairs. Since 2019, ScarCruft aka APT37 or Temp.Reaper has been...

New Chinotto Spyware Targets North Korean Defectors, Human Rights Activists

North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news, and entities in South Korea are being zeroed in on by a nation-state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT as part of a new wave of highly-targeted surveillance attacks. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed the...

ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists

The ScarCruft group also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others...

Hackers steal personal details of 1,000 North Korean Defectors

By Uzair Amir The data breach against North Korean Defectors came after hackers targeted computer at Resettling agency. Private data of approx. 1,000 North Korean Defectors present in the South have been exposed in a data breach which makes them vulnerable to all sorts of threats from the North,...

RedDawn Espionage Campaign Shows Mobile APTs on the Rise

A sophisticated and targeted mobile espionage campaign has been found targeting North Korean defectors. Mounted by a relatively new APT actor known as Sun Team, the offensive used Google Play and Facebook as attack vectors; and overall, it shows how quickly the mobile threat landscape is evolving...

Nuclear War Isn’t North Korea’s Only Threat

Editor's Note: This opinion piece originally appeared on CNN.com North Korea has launched 22 missiles in 15 tests in 2017. According to US intelligence sources, the most recent test detonated a 140-kiloton nuclear device, which the North Koreans claim was a hydrogen bomb. That's 10 times as...