FireEye unmasks a new North Korean threat group

FireEye unmasks a new North Korean threat group: There is a distinct and aggressive group of hackers bent on financing the North Korean regime and responsible for millions of dollars in bank heists in recent years, according to research from cybersecurity company FireEye. The group, dubbed APT38, is distinct from other Pyongyang-linked hackers because of its overriding financial motivation — as opposed to pure espionage — and persistent targeting of banks worldwide, FireEye researchers said. “This is an active … threat against financial institutions all around the world,” Sandra Joyce, FireEye’s vice president of global intelligence, said at a press briefing. The group was responsible for some of the more high-profile attacks on financial institutions in the last few years, the researchers said, including the $81 million heist of the Bangladesh’s central bank in February 2016, and an attack on a Taiwanese bank in October 2017. North Korean hackers had already been publicly linked with these attacks, but the …

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