02-26-2021 , 05:08 PM
Quote:A North Korean-backed hacking group has targeted the defense industry with custom backdoor malware dubbed ThreatNeedle since early 2020 with the end goal of collecting highly sensitive information.
This espionage campaign affected organizations from more than a dozen countries and was coordinated by DPRK-backed state hackers tracked as Lazarus Group.
The attackers used COVID19-themed spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments or links as the initial access vector to the companies' enterprise network.
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