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Just recently, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said North Korean hackers used multiple profiles on various social networks, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, Discord, and Keybase, to reach out to security researchers using fake personas. In a blog post by Adam Weidemann from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), he said: “In order to build credibility and connect with security researchers, the actors established a research blog and multiple Twitter profiles to interact with potential targets. They’ve used these Twitter profiles for posting links to their blog, posting videos o...

Tweets used by attackers to demonstrate previous "exploits" they'd discovered (Source: Google) North Korean hackers have been "targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations" to trick them into installing backdoored software, warns Google's Threat Analysis Group. The group's Monday blog post describes what it says is a monthslong attack campaign that has already notched up multiple victims. The campaign traces to "a government-backed entity based in North Korea," which has used a variety of techniques to trick research...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Government-backed hackers based in North Korea are targeting individual security researchers through a number of means including a “novel social engineering method,” Google’s Threat Analysis Group is reporting. The campaign has reportedly been ongoing for several months, and worryingly appears to exploit unpatched Windows 10 and Chrome vulnerabilities. Although Google doesn’t say exactly what the aim of the hacking campaign is, it notes that the targets are working on “vulnerability research and development.” This suggests the attackers may ...

minute read Share this article: Hackers masquerade as security researchers to befriend analysts and eventually infect fully patched systems at multiple firms with a malicious backdoor. Hackers linked to North Korea are targeting security researchers with an elaborate social-engineering campaign that sets up trusted relationships with them — and then infects their organizations’ systems with custom backdoor malware. That’s according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which issued a warning late Monday about a campaign it has tracked over the last several months that...

North Korea hackers targeted security researchers working on vulnerability research and development.