#North Korea
9 stories taggedNorth Korea.
North Korean Hackers Poisoned Over 100 Open Source Packages to Spy on Developers
A campaign called PolinRider has quietly corrupted legitimate software building blocks used by developers worldwide, planting tools that steal data and leave a hidden door open for attackers.
North Korean hackers flood open-source repositories with 108 booby-trapped packages
The Contagious Interview crew is back, seeding npm, Packagist, Go and Chrome with malware aimed at developers.
Fake Rollup Helper Packages on npm Traced to North Korean Hackers
Two look-alike JavaScript packages copied a popular developer tool line-for-line, then quietly opened a back door onto the machines of anyone who installed them.
North Korean Malware Tells AI Analyzers to Look Away
A macOS sample attributed to Pyongyang-linked actors contains prompts designed to make LLM-assisted security tools abandon their analysis. Defenders are starting to notice the pattern.
ScarCruft Dresses Up NarwhalRAT in a Microsoft Account Security Alert
APT37's spear-phish leans on the oldest trick in the identity playbook: tell the user their account is at risk, then hand them the payload.
Contagious Interview Pivots to Dev-Review Lures in Two Fresh Campaigns
The North Korea-linked cluster is back with phishing pretexts aimed at developers — recruiter pitches and code-review requests that drop malware on engineers' workstations.
Kimsuky Rolls Out HTTPSpy and HelloDoor in Spring 2026 Campaign Against South Korean Targets
The DPRK-linked crew is spoofing Webex pages and antivirus installers to drop new implants on military and corporate networks.
Your Hiring Process Is Now a Weapons Financing Loophole
North Korea and Iran are using AI to manufacture legitimacy at scale. The threat isn't a genius hacker. It's industrialized paperwork.
Lazarus' RemotePE Lives Entirely in Memory, Targets Crypto Treasuries
A fresh in-memory RAT from DPRK's Lazarus Group is being chained behind two custom loaders to drain finance and crypto orgs. Here is what to check tonight.