Experts talk about attacks by hackers from the DPRK on Russian scientists – RBK
Following the attacks on the Russian defense industry, hackers from North Korea took over, experts and diplomats who are busy with relations with Pyongyang.
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The North Korean hacker group Kimsuki organized attacks on Russian scientists, foreign policy experts and non-governmental organizations that have anything to do with issues of interaction with the DPRK. As the newspaper writes Kommersant, the American cybersecurity company Proofpoint came to the conclusions, with the report of which the edition got acquainted.
Hackers send phishing emails to Korean experts on behalf of well-known experts in Russia. The letters contain a link to a supposedly closed network resource with a proposal to register. This is how hackers obtain the victim’s credentials. The author of the message of such a message.
“The campaign is wide, some of my most famous colleagues are also suffering,” Toloraya confirmed to the newspaper.
Russia is one of the important participants in the diplomatic and political processes around the DPRK, so it is important for North Korean intelligence to have access to classified mailings and other information.
According to Anastasia Tikhonova, head of the Group-IB complex threat research group, Kimsuki probably tried to purposefully “break through” and extract valuable documents from specific officials and employees of research organizations.