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North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day

Dmitry Nogaev | Getty Images reader comments 9 with North Korea-backed hackers are once again targeting security researchers with a zero-day exploit and related malware in an attempt to infiltrate computers used to perform sensitive investigations involving cybersecurity. The presently unfixed zero-day—meaning a vulnerability that’s known to attackers before the hardware or software vendor has… Read More »

North Korean hackers return, target infosec researchers in new operation

Enlarge In January, Google and Microsoft outed what they said was North Korean government-sponsored hackers targeting security researchers. The hackers spent weeks using fake Twitter profiles—purportedly belonging to vulnerability researchers—before unleashing an Internet Explorer zero-day and a malicious Visual Studio Project, both of which installed custom malware. Now, the same hackers are back, a Google… Read More »