North Korean hackers target security researchers with zero-day exploit

North Korean threat actors are once again attempting to compromise security researchers’ machines by employing a zero-day exploit. The warning comes from Google’s own security researchers Clement Lecigne and Maddie Stone, who detailed the latest campaign mounted by government-backed attackers. Security researchers targeted with zero-day The attackers initially contacted the researchers through social media (e.g., X, formerly Twitter, or Mastodon) on the pretense of collaborating on security research. After they moved the conversation to end-to-end … More →

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