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North Korean hackers release malware-ridden packages into npm registry
Security researchers spotted 67 malicious packages on npm The packages are part of the Contagious Interview campaign They are ...
North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
North Korean threat actors planted 67 malicious packages in the Node Package Manager (npm) online repository to deliver a new ...
Canada issues advisory over North Korean IT espionage threat
Canadian authorities are warning individuals and businesses against unknowingly hiring North Korean IT workers who may pose ...
The Hacker News1d
North Korean Hackers Flood npm Registry with XORIndex Malware in Ongoing Attack Campaign
North Korean hackers continue attacking open-source software via npm packages. 67 new malicious packages with XORIndex Loader ...
Infosecurity Magazine1d
North Korean Actors Expand Contagious Interview Campaign with New Malware Loader
Socket has identified a new malware loader called XORIndex incorporated into malicious packages published to the npm registry ...
U.S. sanctions North Korean member of Kim Jong Un's spy agency over IT worker scheme
Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for ...
Inside the North Korean IT job scandal
Keith Shaw: The North Korean IT job scandal has shaken a lot of companies’ hiring practices to the core—exposing poor processes and revealing serious data security vulnerabilities.
North Korean man avoids military and landmines to cross border into South Korea
The mission to safely guide the man to the South involved a considerable number of South Korean troops and took around 20 ...
North Korean man crosses the heavily fortified border to South Korea
The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)11d
How North Korean operatives are infiltrating U.S. companies to fund weapons programs
This week, federal prosecutors charged four North Korean nationals with scheming to get hired by a U.S. company as remote ...
North Korean leader meets with Russia’s foreign minister in Wonsan
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday received Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Wonsan. Earlier, Lavrov held ...