Nils Weisensee is Director of News Operations at Korea Risk Group and covers cybersecurity for NK Pro. He previously founded information security firm Frontier Intelligence, served as head of operations at non-profit Choson Exchange, and was a reporter for DAPD and the Associated Press.
Second major outage this year disrupted internet access and took all websites on DPRK servers offline
Crucial servers inside DPRK offline for hours, taking down websites and email servers
North Korea’s leader transformed the country’s sledgehammer attacks into a relentless espionage operation
Lazarus Group embeds malicious code in corrupted PDFs disguised as Samsung job post, experts find
Cryptocurrencies and the internet provide the DPRK with an asymmetric advantage that will keep the regime afloat
Investigation identifies at least two DPRK-linked groups attempting to break into computers at NK News
Attackers use access to spread malware and lure DPRK experts on social media
Antivirus apps failed to catch malware spread through DailyNK, showing security breaches are often hard to spot
Experts say North Korean malware spread to readers, contradicting DailyNK’s claim that public content was unaffected
Recurring connectivity issues end in broad disruption across North Korean internet servers
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