Ukraine-linked hackers used the prospect of doing business with North Korea as bait in a phishing attack against Russian businesses, a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm said, a ruse that takes advantage of the burgeoning commercial contacts between Russia and the DPRK.

Hackers targeted an unnamed Russian “industrial firm” on April 8, sending emails from an address posing as Russia’s Foreign Ministry and informing it of an upcoming DPRK delegation visit, cybersecurity firm F6 said in a blog post on Friday.

The purported delegation was said to visit a Russian enterprise to learn more about its “production