Hacking group targets organizations focused on North Korea's missile program - CyberScoop

Hacking group targets organizations focused on North Korea's missile program - CyberScoop: Hackers using web infrastructure associated with a known North Korean threat group are behind a dormant phishing campaign that’s targeted the ministry of foreign affairs in at least three countries, as well as a number of research organizations, according to findings shared exclusively with CyberScoop before their publication Wednesday. Researchers from Anomali, a threat intelligence company based in California, found a network of malicious websites that appear to be login portals for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Stanford University, and a U.K. think tank, among other targets. Each of the targets has focused in some way on North Korea’s nuclear efforts, or the international sanctions issued as punishment for it. By tricking diplomats or other victims into entering their credentials into a malicious website, the hackers behind this apparent espionage effort could then use that information to …

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