In a multilingual social engineering attack, North Korean hackers broke into several accounts of a prominent defector and used their access to send a malicious document to a contact working on DPRK issues, an NK News investigation found.
The attackers also used one of the accounts to message journalists at NK News in an attempt to gain access to their professional network.
In a multilingual social engineering attack, North Korean hackers broke into several accounts of a prominent defector and used their access to send a malicious document to a contact working on DPRK issues, an NK News investigation found.
The attackers also used one of the accounts to message journalists at NK News in an attempt to gain access to their professional network.
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