N. Korean cyber spies deploy new tactic: tricking experts into writing research for them

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Instead of stealing passwords or loading malware, Pyongyang’s hackers are now getting information straight from the horse's mouth. Read more at straitstimes.com.

seen as insulting to its leader, and stealing data from pharmaceutical and defence companies, foreign governments and others.

This tactic can be quicker than hacking someone’s account and wading through their e-mails, bypasses traditional technical security programmes that would scan and flag a message with malicious elements, and allows the spies direct access to the experts’ thinking, Mr Elliott said. In one case, she said, she was involved in a surreal e-mail exchange in which the suspected attacker, posing as her, included her in a reply.

About three weeks after receiving the faked e-mail from 38 North, a separate hacker impersonated him, e-mailing other people to look at a draft, Mr DePetris said. In a March 2022 report, a panel of experts that investigates North Korea’s UN sanctions evasions listed Thallium’s efforts as among activities that “constitute espionage intended to inform and assist” the country’s sanctions avoidance.

 

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