LONDON/WASHINGTON — North Korean hackers have launched a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons program, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday.
LONDON/WASHINGTON — North Korea n hackers have launched a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons program, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday.The hackers, dubbed Anadriel or APT45 by cybersecurity researchers, are believed to be part of North Korea 's intelligence agency known as the Reconnaissance General Bureau, an entity sanctioned by the US in 2015.
'The authoring agencies believe the group and the cyber techniques remain an ongoing threat to various industry sectors worldwide, including but not limited to entities in their respective countries, as well as in Japan and India,' the advisory said.Internationally isolated North Korea, known formally as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , has a long history of using covert hacking teams to steal sensitive military information.
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