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North Korea upgrades its Android security, says report
A new report says smartphone users in North Korea were given until the end of 2023 to upgrade to a new version of the Android operating system or face confiscation of their phones.
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New Android OS delayed in North Korea, says report
North Korean authorities have delayed a roll-out of a new operating system for Android smartphones.
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Microsoft grabs domain names used by suspected North Korean hackers
Microsoft has taken control of 50 Internet domain names used by hackers to trick people into divulging their user names and passwords and to plant malware on their machines. The hackers are suspected of being linked to North Korean groups, the company said on Monday. It grabbed domain names such as “office365-us[.]org” and “pw-change[.]com” as…
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Hundreds of North Korea IT workers abroad earning money for missile, nuclear program, says UN report
North Korea is raising money for its missile and nuclear programs by conducting cybercrime and syphoning the wages of North Korean computer engineers doing legitimate work overseas, according to a new report by the United Nations Panel of Experts on the DPRK. Details of the report, which was published on Thursday, were leaked in advance…
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North Korea denies it raised billions through cybercrime
Before it is even published, North Korea has come out swinging against an upcoming report by the United Nations Security Council’s Panel of Experts on North Korea. The report, which is expected to be published on September 6, alleges the country has generated about $2 billion from cybercrime and funneled the money into its weapons…
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Drone images used in state media coverage of missile test
When North Korean media reported on the August 24 launch of missiles it included something we hadn’t seen before: drone photos. Until now all photos of North Korean launches have been taken at ground level but this time among the package released by KCNA were several taken from the air. And in images of Kim…
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More on SiliVaccine, North Korea’s anti-virus scanner
Several years ago I obtained a copy of SiliVaccine, an anti-virus scanner developed in North Korea. Recently I’ve been working with Mark Lechtik at Check Point Software who has done a deep technical analysis of the application. There are some interesting findings and we’ll be providing more details on those in the coming weeks. Mark…
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Mystery North Korean radio broadcast highlights coded communications
A little after midnight, early on the morning of July 15, as most of the Korean peninsula slept, were North Korean spies up late listening to the radio? This was the big question after a strange sequence of numbers was read out on a North Korean radio station. It sounded a lot like the coded…
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Cyber femme fatale targets South Korean government
It would be unfair to suggest South Korean intelligence officers are falling for the oldest trick in the spying book — there are surely older ones — but the femme fatale is certainly dated. A staple of James Bond movies and soviet-era thrillers, it appears that North Korean hackers are using a modern variant in an attempt…
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THAAD deployment ‘at the earliest possible date’
Discussions between the U.S. and South Korea on deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system will begin as soon as this week towards deploying it “at the earliest possible date,” assuming an agreement is reached, the Department of Defense said on Monday. “We’d like to see this move as quickly as possible,…
