North Korea

US warns North Korean Lazarus gang rising against cryptocurrency outfits

Malware-laced recruitment emails are more Kim job ill than Kim Jong-un

Security20 Apr 2022 | 5

Feds offer $5m reward for info on North Korean cyber crooks

Meanwhile: Caltech grad earns five years in prison for helping Kim's coders

Security15 Apr 2022 | 15

North Korea's Lazarus cyber-gang caught 'spying' on chemical sector companies

Crypto-coin theft isn't enough to keep these miscreants busy

Cyber-crime15 Apr 2022 | 2

We blocked North Korea's Chrome exploit, says Google

Fake Oracle and Disney job ads to lure victims is certainly an interesting choice

Security25 Mar 2022 | 14

North Korea says it's launched a third hypersonic missile, this time reaching Mach 10

South Korea piqued as FAA grounds west coast aircraft

Science12 Jan 2022 | 27

North Korea worried a lot of countries when it said it test-fired a hypersonic missile in Japan's direction

South Korea thinks they just went ballistic

Science06 Jan 2022 | 13

Ethereum dev admits helping North Korea mine crypto-bucks, faces 20 years jail

Also advised on how smart contracts could help DPRK in US nuke talks

Security28 Sep 2021 | 8

Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories

Roundup A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe

Bootnotes20 Jul 2021 | 84

Uncle Sam accuses three suspected North Korean govt hackers of stealing $1.3bn+ from banks, crypto orgs

Oh yes, and hacking Hollywood, allegedly

Security17 Feb 2021 | 7

North Korean attacks on crypto exchanges reportedly netted $316m in two years

United Nations sanctions made silly by sloppy security

Security10 Feb 2021 | 12

I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg

Hyperion Gray founder relates 'holy f**k' moment when he realised

Security26 Jan 2021 | 60

North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google

Security eggheads discover their PCs chatting with Kim Jong Un's hackers

Security26 Jan 2021 | 19

BeagleBoyz: 2020's hottest country-rap band, or N. Korea hackers stealing millions. Only one way to find out...

...read the article, of course

Security28 Aug 2020 | 6

North Korean hackers pwned cryptocurrency sysadmin with GDPR-themed LinkedIn lure, says F-Secure

Click here to enable your rights... ha, GOTCHA!

Security25 Aug 2020 | 11

EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews

Russian, Chinese, Nork groups named in bank asset freeze

Security31 Jul 2020 | 14

From the crew behind the Sony Pictures hack comes Operation Interception: An aerospace cyber-attack thriller

North Korea's Lazarus Group at it again: Watch out for .rar files coming and going from your networks

Security17 Jun 2020 | 2

Sophos XG firewalls hacked, hotfix ready. Texts wreck Apple iThings. Yup, business as usual in infosec world

Roundup Plus Office 2016, 2019 patches – and a barn-load of other security bits and bytes

Security26 Apr 2020 | 9

Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps

US-Cert issues new report on misdeeds of North Korean groups

Security16 Apr 2020 | 3

Google rolls out Titan keys to Europe, Japan. Plus: Group Policy bug is a feature, not a flaw, says Microsoft

Roundup And Adobe in remote-code execution patch non-shocker

OSes24 Feb 2020 | 7

Lazarus group goes back to the Apple orchard with new macOS trojan

In-memory malware a first for suspected Nork hacking crew

OSes05 Dec 2019 | 10

Boffins show the 2017 Nork nuke can move, move, move any mountain (by a meter)

Satellite radar imaging shows explosion was 17 times more powerful than Hiroshima

Science15 Nov 2019 | 24

Lazarus Group rises again from the digital grave with Hoplight malware for all

Norks trigger Uncle Sam's alarm with attack variant

Security10 Apr 2019 | 13

McAfee: Oops, our bad. Sharpshooter malware was the Norks' Lazarus Group the whole time

Access to C'n'C server data shows state hackers weren't smart enough for false flags

Security04 Mar 2019 | 9

Team America tries to crash Little Rocket Man's Joanap botnet from within, warns owners of infected boxes

Analysis So lonely, so lonely without my hacked PCs

Security31 Jan 2019 | 14

You think election meddling is bad now? Buckle up for 2020, US intel chief tells Congress

Expect trolls, cyber attacks, and even deep fakes in next White House run

Security30 Jan 2019 | 45

Worried about Brexit food shortages? North Korean haute couture has just the thing

I'll eat my hat if leaving is not a success. Also my pants. And those socks look tasty too

Bootnotes29 Jan 2019 | 166

South Korea reckons mystery hackers cracked open advanced weapons servers

No idea who could have been behind this one...

Security17 Jan 2019 | 14

Yahoo! $50m! hack! damages! bill!, Russian trolls menaced by Uncle Sam inaction, computer voting-machine UI confusion, and more

Roundup Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace

Security27 Oct 2018 | 29

'Desperate' North Korea turns to bank hacking sprees to rake in much-needed dosh

State-sponsored intrusions meets financial acquisition with APT38

Security03 Oct 2018 | 29

US Treasury goes after IT shops for funneling cash to North Korea

Meanwhile, Norks deny Sony hacker ever existed

Legal14 Sep 2018 | 9

India's Cosmos bank raided for $13m by hackers

Report points finger at North Korea for cyber-heist

Security15 Aug 2018 | 12

US-CERT warns of more North Korean malware

'Typeframe' springs from the same den as 'Hidden Cobra'

Security18 Jun 2018 | 16

FBI fingers North Korea for two malware strains

'Joanap' and 'Brambul' harvest info about your systems and send it home

Security30 May 2018 | 12

North Korea's antivirus software whitelisted mystery malware

'SiliVaccine' uses ancient, stolen, Trend Micro AV engine and bad home-brew crypto

Security02 May 2018 | 25

Thailand seizes server linked to North Korean attack gang

McAfee spotted malware-machine on IP address used for the Sony Pictures hack

Security30 Apr 2018 | 9

Don't want to alarm you, but defence bods think North Korea could nuke UK 'within a few years'

Report on threat posed by rogue state demands more cash for government hackers

Security05 Apr 2018 | 131

Surprise: Norks not actually behind Olympic Destroyer malware outbreak – Kaspersky

Who framed Pyongyang, then, we wonder

Security08 Mar 2018 | 52

Spectre shenanigans, Nork hackers upgrade, bad WD drives and more

Roundup Your weekly dose of infosec odds'n'sods

Security03 Feb 2018 | 14

Nork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with it next week

Maybe it's a good time to just delete the thing

Security01 Feb 2018 | 36

Nervy nuke-armed nation fires missile with 5,000km range

India can hit all of China now. Or Moscow, Athens, USA’s Indian Ocean navy base ...

Legal19 Jan 2018 | 70

North Korea's finest spent 2017 distributing RATs, wipers, and phish

And sent them mostly to South Korea, naturally

Security18 Jan 2018 | 5

UK, US govt and pals on WannaCry culprit: It woz the Norks wot done it

Notorious Lazarus Group said to be behind mass infection

Security19 Dec 2017 | 54

Crouching cyber Hidden Cobra: US warns Nork hackers are at it again with new software nasty

Fallchill file-stealing malware raids American networks

Security15 Nov 2017 | 18

Russian telco backs up North Korea's sole Internet link

Transtelecom can reach 256 North Korean hosts

Networks04 Oct 2017 | 27

North Korea attacks Bitcoin bods to swell its war chest says FireEye

BTC isn't explicitly covered by sanctions and Kim could launder it into useful currencies

Security13 Sep 2017 | 19

Best Korea fingered for hacks against Bitcoin exchanges in South

Norks planning more raids to cover sanction losses, say intel boffins

Security30 Aug 2017 | 27

Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'

Feature El Reg talks to experts on Kim's capabilities

Science22 Aug 2017 | 166

Happy 4th of July: Norks tests another missile

Emergency security talks in Japan, South Korea

Legal04 Jul 2017 | 70

Crouching cyber, Hidden Cobra: Crack North Korean hack team ready to strike, says US-CERT

DeltaCharlie malware aimed at American biz, we're told

Security14 Jun 2017 | 13

NORK spy agency blamed for Bangladesh cyberheist, Sony Pictures hack

Group-IB IDs Lazarus Group

Security30 May 2017 | 21

WannaCrypt 'may be the work of North Korea' theory floated

Lazarus rising again... or not

Security16 May 2017 | 70

NORKS fires missile that India reckons it could shoot down in flight

The Cold War called, wants its arms race back

Legal13 Feb 2017 | 38

Searching for 'Fatty Kim the Third' banned on Chinese social media

Fatty who? That's North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un to the rest of us

Bootnotes17 Nov 2016 | 40

So. What's North Korea really like?

A look inside the DPRK

Legal14 Oct 2016 | 54

Nork server blunder leaks Kim Jong Un's entire DNS – all, er, 28 .kp domains

It looks a lot like 1996

Networks21 Sep 2016 | 24

North Korea unveils its home-grown Netflix rival – Manbang

Needs work on the branding

Legal23 Aug 2016 | 32