reaction, South Korean reactions and other stakeholders.” “And so this is their version of doing that, of trying to really scope the landscape of how Washington thinks about, how the policy community is thinking about these issues and what that might mean in terms of U.S.
Town said on a podcast hosted by cybersecurity firm Mandiant in March. “They don’t have an embassy here, they don’t have diplomats and intelligence officers that can just run around and act like real diplomats and intelligence officers,” Ms. North Korea’s hacking and social engineering efforts may replace the more traditional work of diplomats and intelligence officers of other countries, according to Stimson Center senior fellow Jenny Town. North Korea watchers have pointed to the isolation of the regime of leader Kim Jong-un as helping to drive the malicious cyber activity.
“However, as outlined in this advisory, North Korea relies heavily on intelligence gained by compromising policy analysts.” “Some targeted entities may discount the threat posed by these social engineering campaigns, either because they do not perceive their research and communications as sensitive in nature, or because they are not aware of how these efforts fuel the regime’s broader cyberespionage efforts,” the government agencies’ warning said. The FBI, the National Security Agency and the State Department partnered with South Korean government agencies to publish an advisory this month that warned of social engineering and hacking threats posed by the North Koreans. intelligence officials, media executives and national security scholars were in the crosshairs of North Korean hackers as part of a malicious cyber campaign reported by The Washington Times earlier this month. Recorded Future’s analysis follows the revelation of North Korean hackers’ recent aggressive targeting of Americans to gain consistent access to valuable information and penetrate computer networks.
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