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North Korean hackers stole research data in two-month-long breach

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports:

A new cyber espionage campaign dubbed ‘No Pineapple!’ has been attributed to the North Korean Lazarus hacking group, allowing the threat actors to stealthily steal 100GB of data from the victim without causing any destruction.

The campaign lasted between August and November 2022, targeting organizations in medical research, healthcare, chemical engineering, energy, defense, and a leading research university.

The operation was discovered by Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, whose analysts were called to investigate a potential ransomware incident on one of its customers. However, thanks to an operational mistake by Lazarus, they were able to link the campaign to the North Korean APT.

Read more at BleepingComputer.


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