One Article Review
| Source |  AlienVault Lab Blog |
|---|---|
| Identifiant | 8610226 |
| Date de publication | 2024-11-13 07:00:00 (vue: 2024-11-13 07:07:43) |
| Titre | Fake Job Ads and Fake Identities: How North Korea Gets Its Hands on Our Data |
| Texte | 
Data theft has become an undeniable geopolitical weapon, and no player has mastered this art quite like North Korea.
Rather than relying solely on traditional hacking methods, the regime has adopted a far more insidious approach — exploiting the vulnerabilities of the job market. This might be why fake job ad scams saw a 28% spike in 2023.
As these methods become more advanced, both companies and individuals need to stay vigilant to protect themselves from this rising threat.
Keep reading to learn how this threat works and how to defend your company against it.
The Growing Threat of North Korean Cyber Actors
With limited access to global markets due to international sanctions, the North Korean regime has developed sophisticated hacking capabilities that focus on stealing sensitive information, financial assets, and intellectual property.
These actors, often state-backed organizations like the Lazarus Group, have been involved in major attacks, including the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 and the WannaCry ransomware incident.
Their approach combines sophisticated hacking techniques with social engineering, allowing them to slip through traditional cybersecurity defenses. They often pose as legitimate job seekers or employers, using fake job ads and resumes to gain access to corporate networks. Once inside, they steal sensitive information such as corporate IP, financial data, and personal details.
But their tactics don’t stop at fake identities. North Korean hackers are also experts at faking entire websites to further their espionage goals.
They might take a page about invoice factoring for SMBs, copy everything, but redirect potential leads to a phishing page. These sites are designed to capture login credentials, personal information, and other sensitive data, making it easier for hackers to penetrate the target company’s systems undetected.
These hackers also use spear phishing, a highly targeted form of phishing. They research their victims and send emails that seem to come from trusted sources. These emails often contain malicious attachments or links that, once clicked, give the hackers access to the victim’s computer or network.
How They Use Fake Identities in Cyber Espionage
North Korean cyber actors are experts in using fake identities to conduct cyber espionage. They create synthetic identities, complete with fabricated resumes, professional profiles, and even fake references, to infiltrate companies and organizations.
These fake personas often appear highly qualified, sometimes posing as software develo |
| Notes | ★★★ |
| Envoyé | Oui |
| Condensat | 121 2014 2023 abnormal about access accessing activity actor actors adding additional adopted ads advanced against aim alike all allowing allows alone also analyze appear applicants applications approach are areas around art aspect assets attachments attackers attacks attract attractive audit auditing authentication automated avoid aws backed background based because become been before behavior behaviors behind boards both breach breaches breed build bureau business businesses but bypass can capabilities capture catch cautious checks clicked collect collection combines come commonly companies company company’s complete compromised compromising computer conceal conclusion conduct configured confined consequences contacting contain continuous contractor contractors controls cooperation copy corporate cover covert credentials credible critical crucial cultural cyber cyberattacks cybersecurity damage dangerous data database date deep deeper defend defenses demands descriptions designed details detect devastating developed developer developers devices discrepancies docker don’t door dprk’s due easier easy effective efficiency emails embedded employee employees employers empowers enforced engaged engaging engineering engineers ensures ensuring entire entry especially espionage essential even every everyone everything evolving expertise experts exploit exploiting exploits exposed exposing fabricated factor factoring fail fake faking falling far financial flag flows focus form frameworks fraudulent freelance from funded further gain generation geopolitical geopolitics gets give given global goal goals government group growing grows hack hackers hacking hands happening has have having help high higher highly hired hiring how human identify identities identities: identity immediately impact implement implementing inadvertently inboxes incident includes including increasing indicate individuals infiltrate infiltration information initial inside insidious insurance intellectual intelligence interbank internal international invoice involved it’s its itself job keep keeping keeps korea korean latest layer lazarus lead leads learn least leaving legitimacy legitimate like likelihood limited limiting linkedin links links—often login longer looking losses lure major makes making malicious manage managers manipulated many market markets mastered may meager measures method methods mfa might mimic monitor monitoring more multi multilayered must nato need network networks new north not notorious now offer offers often once only open operations operations; opportunities organization organizations other page particularly past patterns paying penetrate personal personas phishing pictures platforms player point policies pose posed posing positions postings potential potentially practices prepared presence previous prey primarily prime prioritize privilege proactive problem procedures process processes professional professionals profiles programs properly property proprietary protect protecting protocols pull putting qualified quite raising ranging ransomware rather reading real recruiters recruitment redirect reduce reduces references regime regular regularly relationship rely relying remain remote reputational require requires requiring research responding resumes reviewing revising right rigorous rising risk risks robust roles salesforce sanctions saw scams schemes securing security seekers seem send sensitive sessions severe sharpen shift should signs single sites skilled slip smaller smbs social software solely solved sometimes sony sophisticated sophistication sources spear spike sponsored spot stakes state stay steal stealing steps stolen stop strategies strengthen such suspicion synthetic systems tactics take target targeted targets teams techniques technology than theft them themselves these they create threat threats through titles tools traditional training trends trust trusted typically undeniable understanding undetected unknowingly unsuspecting unusual use user using verification verifying victim vi |
| Tags | Ransomware Hack Tool Vulnerability Threat |
| Stories | |
| Move | 
|
L'article ne semble pas avoir été repris aprés sa publication.
L'article ne semble pas avoir été repris sur un précédent.