Hack attack on US-South Korea exercises. North Korea suspected
Suspected North Korean hackers have attempted an attack on a major joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington starting on Monday , a South Korean police statement said .
South Korea and the United States will kick off the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises from Monday through Aug. 31 to counter growing threats from the nuclear-armed north.
The hackers – believed to be linked to a North Korean group dubbed Kimsuky – have carried out "continuous malicious email attacks" against South Korean contractors working at the allies' combined war simulation center, the provincial police agency said. Gyeonggi Nambu in a statement on Sunday. .
"The police investigation confirms that the North Korean hacker group was responsible for the attack," it said in a statement, adding that information relating to the army was not stolen.
A joint investigation by the U.S. police and military found that the IP address used in the latest attack matched one identified in a 2014 hack against the South Korean nuclear reactor operator accused of the group, according to the statement. .
Kimsuky's hackers use “spearphishing” tactics – sending malicious attachments embedded in emails – to exfiltrate the desired information from victims.
According to the findings of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2020, Kimsuky is "most likely tasked by the North Korean regime with a global intelligence gathering mission".
The group, believed to have been active since 2012, reaches out to individuals and organizations in South Korea, Japan and the United States, focusing on foreign policy and national security issues related to the Korean peninsula, nuclear policy and sanctions, he added. .
This seems to be a response not only to the joint exercises between the US and South Korea, which have always been seen as a threat by the PyongYang regime, but also a warning to the new tripartite strengthening between the US, Korea and Japan which is taking place right at the gates of home of North Korea.
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