North Korea
FBI raids 40+ laptop farms helping North Korea pocket US tech salaries
North Korean IT workers used stolen and fabricated identities to land remote jobs at more than 70 US companies, with help from Americans who allegedly kept company-issued …
North Korea’s job interview scam runs both ways
Attackers are targeting members of the Rust Project and maintainers of widely used crates (Rust code libraries), dangling attractive opportunities to compromise their devices …
North Korean remote workers are broadening their job hunt beyond IT
North Korean (DPRK) remote workers are expanding their job searches beyond IT, according to Huntress. Recent investigations have identified suspected DPRK workers employed in …
Lazarus hackers pair fake job offers with Windows zero-day exploit
The North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using fake job offers, trojanized PDF software and a Windows zero-day in attacks aimed primarily at the defense sector, Check Point …
Microsoft patches 400+ vulnerabilities, one zero-day under attack (CVE-2026-68820)
Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday delivered security fixes for 400+ vulnerabilities, including one that has been exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-68820) and …
Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns
Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity Report. …
Helping North Korean IT remote workers is becoming a fast track to prison
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating “laptop farms” that helped North Korean IT workers gain employment at nearly 70 American companies, …
North Korean hackers trojanize gaming platform to spy on ethnic Koreans in China
A gaming platform built for ethnic Koreans in China has been serving backdoored Windows and Android software to its users since late 2024. The platform, sqgame[.]net, hosts …
AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs
In this Help Net Security interview, Kaja Ciglic, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy at Microsoft, discusses how nation-state cyber programs have changed over …
With AI’s help, North Korean hackers stumbled into a near-undetectable attack
For many years, state-sponsored hacking was defined by human expertise in finding security holes, writing malware and exploits, pulling off social engineering and phishing …
Two US nationals jailed over scheme that generated $5 million for the North Korean regime
Two US nationals have been sentenced for their role in a scheme that placed North Korean IT workers inside American companies under false identities. Over several years, the …
North Korean hackers linked to Axios npm supply chain compromise
The software supply chain attack that resulted in the compromise of npm packages of Axios, an extremely popular HTTP client library, is believed to be the work of …
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