North Korean Attackers Hit 30,000 Devices and Steal $10.7m
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North Korean hackers may have raised 3.4 billion forints for the regime.
North Korean pirates from WaterPlum have made themselves known as recruiters and infected 30,000 devices, using false tests to loot over 7,000 cryptocurrency walletsA group of North Korean pirates are behind a cyber attack affecting more than 100 countries, including Japan, and resulting in the theft of cryptocurrency worth about $10 million, said the National Police Agency (NPA). This North Korean group, called WaterPlum, infected more than 10 …
False job interviews and programming tests opened the door to malware. The identities stolen from the victims were then used by North Koreans to apply for jobs abroad. The North Korean WaterPlum group infected at least 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries and made North Korea reach about 10.7 million dollars in stolen cryptocurrency. The numbers consist of a joint alert released by authorities in Japan, the United States, Australia and Germ…
Beware DPRK job scams, ASD warns, but won’t confirm local impact
Key points ASD has joined Japan, Germany and the US in warning that North Korean actor WaterPlum, also known as Contagious Interview, poses as recruiters to target IT professionals with malware. WaterPlum has infected more than 30,000 devices in over 100 countries, draining more than 7000 cryptocurrency wallets and transferring roughly $15.4 million to the
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