The Threat Analysis Group has recently detected an ongoing campaign targeting the security researchers who are working on vulnerability analysis and development at separate companies and organizations.
According to the Google report, this campaign was well organized across various online platforms, that includes drive-by browser accommodations from booby-trapped websites. In the report, Google affirmed that North Korean hackers utilized multiple profiles on different social networks to reach out to several security researchers using fake people accounts via Twitter, Linked In, Telegram, Discord, and Keybase.
A New Mysterious Browser Attack also Discovered
In order to target users through social engineering, the cybersecurity researchers have also observed numerous cases where the experts have been compromising after visiting the actors’ blog.
Google asserted that the blog treated malicious code that affected all the security researcher’s computer after obtaining the site….
