DoJ Indicts 5 Individuals for $866K North Korean IT Worker Scheme Violations

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday indicted two North Korean nationals, a Mexican national, and two of its own citizens for their alleged involvement in the ongoing fraudulent information technology IT worker scheme that seeks to generate revenue for the Democratic People's Republic o...

U.S. Sanctions North Korean IT Worker Network Supporting WMD Programs

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC sanctioned two individuals and four entities for their alleged involvement in illicit revenue generation schemes for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK by dispatching IT workers around the world to obtain employment...

North Korean Front Companies Impersonate U.S. IT Firms to Fund Missile Programs

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK are impersonating U.S.-based software and technology consulting businesses in order to further their financial objectives as part of a broader information technology IT worker scheme. "Front companies, often based in China,...

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say

Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions...

Predatory Sparrow massively disrupts steel factories while keeping workers safe

Stuxnets attack on Irans uranium enrichment facilities manifested fears of cyberattacks leaking into the real world. What once was theory is now upon us. Two weeks ago, multiple Iranian steel facilities experienced a cyberattack that might have been pulled off by what many cybersecurity experts i...

Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea

State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with "medium-high" likelihood to the Lazarus Group aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra, researchers from Israeli...