One of South Korea's biggest tech companies, Naver's myriad services — including Google-like maps, financial services similar to Apple Pay, and popular blogs and chat forums — are used daily by many Koreans.
North Korea created a fake version of Naver, South Korea's largest internet portal, as part of a sophisticated phishing attack designed to harvest personal information, Seoul's spy agency said on Wednesday .
The site, naverportal.com, was designed to hack South Koreans' Naver IDs and passwords, giving Pyongyang access to valuable personal data, NIS added. North Korea has previously attempted to steal South Korean IDs and passwords by duplicating Naver's log-in page but creating a fake portal was a new approach, the agency said."We are tracking the activities of the hacking group in cooperation with foreign agencies as the server is located overseas.""We urge users to check if the address is the right one and pay extra attention when accessing Naver," the company said.
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