North Korean hackers tried to infiltrate security-related computers to obtain information on joint US-South Korean military drills that start Monday but apparently obtained no classified information, police in South Korea said.
Malicious emails were sent from suspected North Korean hackers from April of last year to employees at a company involved in joint military drills, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police said in a statement Sunday. The hackers in January were able to seize one of the employee’s accounts and install a code, but there are no indications they obtained sensitive material.
The 11-day joint Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises are designed to prepare responses to various threats, using computer-simulation exercises, drills in the field and civilian-defense practice. South Korean police and US authorities have been investigating a string of e-mails from a sender falsely representing the US military sent to South Korean employees at the US Armed Forces in South Korea in July ahead of the joint military drills, the statement from police said.
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers last week that Pyongyang appeared to be readying to test an intercontinental ballistic missile and smaller ones designed to deliver nuclear weapons.
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