It could broaden Kim Jong UnвЂ™s hacking teamвЂ™s roadmap to outsmarting other hackers around the world. The tactic of targeting security researchers in other countries could be particularly useful for the North Korean government. CrowdStrike does not have access to those emails or the initial routes to victims, but this campaign appears to imitate earlier North Korean hacking missions that used email and social media to attempt distributing malware to security researchers, says Meyers. The North Korean hacking gang responsible, which cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike calls вЂњStardust ChollimaвЂќ-and which other researchers label Lazarus Group-in all likelihood sent the lures over email, Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, told The Daily Beast.

Wait-The FBI Got Hacked Over a Beef With a Guy Named Vinny? While the documents, which CrowdStrike uncovered in June, contained cybersecurity information from ChinaвЂ™s Ministry of Public Security and the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee, the hacking team was likely sending booby-trapped documents. In this case, North Korean hackers targeted Chinese security researchers with Chinese-language lure documents labeled вЂњSecuritystatuscheck.zipвЂќ and вЂњ_signed.pdf,вЂќ in the hopes that the researchers would be compelled to click on them. Hackers with suspected links to the Pyongyang dictatorship have been going after Chinese security researchers in an apparent attempt to steal their hacking techniques and use them as their own, according to CrowdStrike research shared exclusively with The Daily Beast. The North Korean government seems to have understood the assignment.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/Photos Getty ImagesДЄ real diplomat is one who can cut his neighborвЂ™s throat without having his neighbor notice it, Trygve Lie, former secretary-general of the United Nations, once allegedly said.

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