‘Joanap’ and ‘Brambul’ harvest info about your systems and send it home By Simon Sharwood US CERT has issued a Technical Alert that says two strains of malware are tools…
Tag: North Korea
North Korean Threat Widens to Target Multinationals
Tara Seals The North Korean–linked hacking group known as Reaper is expanding its operations in both scope and sophistication, and it has now graduated to the level of an advanced…
Malware Spikes Coincided with 2017 Geopolitical Incidents
Phil Muncaster A new report has linked outbreaks of malware activity to geopolitical events and tensions. Comodo Threat Research Labs’ Global Malware Report 2017 was compiled by former NSA analyst, Kenneth…
Nork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with it next week
Maybe it’s a good time to just delete the thing By Iain Thomson Adobe will next week emit patches to squash a security bug in Flash that can be exploited by…
Lazarus Group, Fancy Bear Most Active Threat Groups in 2017
Kelly Sheridan Lazarus, believed to operate out of North Korea, and Fancy Bear, believed to operate out of Russia, were most referenced threat actor groups in last year’s cyberattacks. The…
North Korea's finest spent 2017 distributing RATs, wipers, and phish
And sent them mostly to South Korea, naturally By Richard Chirgwin North Korea’s black hats launched at least six extensive malware campaigns mostly against South Korean targets during 2017. That’s…