North Korea Says It Launched a Solid-Fuel ICBM, a First
If successfully developed, solid-fuel technology would be a significant advance, making the North’s missiles easier to move and harder to target.
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North Korea missile launch was new kind of ICBM, regime says, as first images emerge
Kim Jong-un hails development of new solid-fuel rocket that can be deployed more quicklyNorth Korea says it has tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with leader Kim Jong-un saying it marked a major step in Pyongyang’s capa…
North Korea Is Ramping Up Its Missile Tests. How Worried Should We Be?
North Korea has already fired at least two dozen missiles over more than 10 tests in just the first few months of 2023 so far, putting the world on edge over the possibility of a nuclear attack.
North Korean missile launch prompts brief warning for Japanese island to take shelter
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staffs said the North Korean missile launched from near the capital Pyongyang flew toward the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
Analyzing attacks conducted by North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO APT group
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. Google experts are tracking ARCHIPELAGO since […]
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Reflecting on a Career Researching Climate Change and Security in North Korea
In the Anthropocene, all politics is climate change politics – and this understanding is no longer a niche in scholarship.
3CX Supply chain attack allowed targeting cryptocurrency companies
Threat actors behind the 3CX supply chain attack have targeted a limited number of cryptocurrency companies with a second-state implant. As of Mar 22, 2023, SentinelOne observed a spike in behavioral detections of the 3CXDesktopApp, which is a popular voice and video conferencing software product. The products from multiple cybersecurity vendors started detecting the popular […]
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North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit
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Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of the victims of the 3CX software supply-chain attack that’s unfolded over the past week. Kaspersky declined to name any of those victim companies, but it notes that they’re based in “western Asia.”
Security firms CrowdStrike and SentinelOne last week pinned the operation on North Korean hackers, who compromised 3CX installer software that’s used by 600,000 organizations worldwide, according to the vendor. Despite the potentially massive breadth of that attack, which SentinelOne dubbed “Smooth Operator,” Kaspersky has now found that the hackers combed through the victims infected with its corrupted software to ultimately target fewer than 10 machines—at least as far as Kaspersky could observe so far—and that they seemed to be focusing on cryptocurrency firms with “surgical precision.”…
3CX Supply Chain Attack: North Korean Hackers Likely Targeted Cryptocurrency Firms
3CX supply chain attack appears to have been conducted by North Korean hackers with the goal of targeting cryptocurrency firms.
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Your Tuesday Briefing: Ukraine Prepares a Counteroffensive
Also, Trump returns to New York to surrender and North Koreans remain in “state-sponsored slavery” abroad.