National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear and defence intelligence
North Korean state-backed hackers have mounted a campaign to obtain secrets related to nuclear materials, military drones, submarines and shipbuilding in the UK and US, as intelligence agencies warned of a “global cyber-espionage campaign” targeting sensitive industries.
The NCSC said Andariel has been “compromising organisations around the world to steal sensitive and classified technical information and intellectual property data”. The intelligence agencies said Andariel was funding its espionage campaign by launching ransomware attacks against the US healthcare sector. They said the attackers were likely identifying vulnerable systems using publicly available internet scanning tools.
The advisory outlines how Andariel has evolved from destructive hacks against US and South Korea organisations to carrying out specialised cyber espionage and ransomware attacks.
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