InfoSec's Reaction to North Korea's Bold Hacking Technique
CIPHER InfoSec’s Reaction to North Korea’s Bold Hacking Technique Cybersecurity researchers were shocked after Google revealed information about a technique North Korea was using to try to hack them. The concept was quite simple. The hacker impersonated a fellow security researcher online. To accomplish this, they built social media profiles, blogs, and other signals of authenticity. Then they started engaging with security researchers. In the course of the interaction, the fake security researcher would ask to send a Visual Studio file to their target. After opening the file, the cyberse...