UK and South Korea Issue Joint Advisory Over North Korea-Linked Cyber Assaults

The UK and South Korea have issued warnings that cyber attacks by North Korean state-linked groups are becoming more sophisticated and widespread.

The two countries’ cyber security and intelligence agencies have issued a new joint advisory urging organisations to strengthen their security measures in order to minimise the risk of their systems being compromised.

According to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is part of GCHQ, and the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS), hackers have been leveraging previously unknown vulnerabilities and exploits in third-party software in their supply chains to gain access to an organisation’s systems.

Both agencies expressed concern that such assaults on the software-based supply chain pose a particularly major threat because a single initial breach can affect a number of organisations and lead to subsequent attacks, resulting in greater disruption or the deployment of ransomware.

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