Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2018
Security experts from Securonix have published a report that attributes the attack against on the Cosmos Bank to the Lazarus APT group. Cosmos Bank is one of the largest Indian cooperative banks, it was the victim of a cyberheist a couple of weeks ago when hackers stole over 940 million rupees ($13.5 million) in just three […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2018
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware in a cryptocurrency exchange attack. According to Kaspersky, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group used a macOS malware to target a cryptocurrency exchange in a recent attack. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2018
Check Point reported that organizations worldwide have been targeted with the Ryuk ransomware that was developed by North Korea-linked threat actor. Security experts from Check Point have uncovered a ransomware-based campaign aimed at organizations around the world conducted by North Korea-linked threat actor. The campaign appears as targeted and well-planned, crooks targeted several enterprises and encrypted hundreds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2018
A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked by experts at industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos as Covellite, has stopped targeting US organizations. Anyway, the group, that is believed to be linked to the notorious Lazarus APT group, is continuing to target organizations in Europe and East Asia. The group has been around at least since 2017 and is still active, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2018
The North Korea-linked APT group known as Lazarus made the headlines again for attacking an online casino in Central America and other targets. The activity of the Lazarus Group (aka Hidden Cobra) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2018
McAfee Advanced Threat Research team discovered that the Hidden Cobra APT group is targeting financial organizations in Turkey. North Korea-linked APT group Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus Group) is targeting the Turkish financial system. Experts from McAfee observed the hackers using the Bankshot implant in targeted attacks against the financial organizations in Turkey. The attack resembles previous attacks conducted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2018
According to Kaspersky Lab, threat actors behind the recent Olympic Destroyer attack planted sophisticated false flags inside their malicious code. On February 9, shortly before the Pyeongchang opening ceremonies on Friday, televisions at the main press centre, wifi at the Olympic Stadium and the official website were taken down. Hackers used the so-called Olympic Destroyer, a strain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2018
What Type Of Technology Does North Korea Have? How Did The Country Begin Using Hackers? How Do Hacking Efforts Comply with the Political Situation? North Korea is not known for technological sophistication. The country does not have any global technological franchises, such as Apple or Samsung, and its citizens continue to have limited access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
Security researchers at AlienVault labs recently analyzed an application compiled on Christmas Eve 2017 that is an installer for a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The mined Monero coins are sent to Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea, but experts noted that the developers might not be of North Korean origins. The KSU is an unusually open University, it is attended […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2017
Security experts who analyzed the malware used in the attacks against the Polish banks discovered false flags in the Lazarus malicious code. A few weeks ago, security experts reported that the systems of several Polish banks were targeted by hackers. The systems were infected with a malware after their staff visited the site of the […]
