South Korea and Germany issued a joint cybersecurity advisory on Monday warning that North Korea is increasingly using cyber espionage to obtain military technologies and advance its weapons programs.

In the advisory, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and Berlin’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) outlined the tactics of DPRK cybercriminals’ social engineering campaigns and methods designed to remotely infiltrate targets’ internal servers.

“Both organizations believe that North Korea has placed strengthening its military power as a priority for its regime, is focusing on stealing cutting-edge defense technology from around the world and is using the stolen