“The most alarming aspect of the campaign from FAMOUS CHOLLIMA is the massive scale of this insider threat. CrowdStrike notified over a hundred victims, primarily from U.S. companies who unknowingly hired North Korean operatives,” Adam Meyers, head of counter adversary operations at CrowdS...
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Iranian-North Korean strategic ties were further strengthened by the breakup of the Soviet Union, which had been the primary provider of subsidized oil to the DPRK. Iran expanded its oil exports to North Korea in exchange for technological assistance for its missile and nuclear programs. Encouraged...
North Korean seafood exports are banned under UN Security Council Resolution 2371. Previously, Chinese authorities did not go out of their way to stop Chinese nationals from importing and selling North Korean seafood, but crackdowns have been intensifying recently. In fact, Chinese businesspeople ...
It's worth pointing out that this is one of many activity clusters – namelyOperation Dream Job,Contagious Interview, and others – undertaken by North Korean hacking groups that make use of job-related decoys to infect targets with malware. ...
The Chinese government has recently stepped up surveillance and inspections of ships passing through North Korean waters and has even started to crackdown on the sale of North Korean seafood in the country’s markets, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, ...
As a bonus, spy satellites can’t see through mountains, making them great places to carry on all sorts of covert activity. For the sake of argument, let’s say that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un finally goes a complete Bond villain after his advisors remind him that he might have ...
On the streets of the neon-lit Chinese city of Shenyang, you’ll find a restaurant, hotel, and other businesses owned and operated by the North Korean government. You’ll also find a secret network of North Korean hackers, known as Bureau 121, according to defector Kim Heung-Kwang. ...
Andray Abrahamian, director of research at Choson Exchange, an NGO working with North Korean entrepreneurs, said North Korea has tried to boost ties with Russia and reduce its reliance on China. “They just haven’t found a way out of it,” he said. “Over the last couple of years the...