Security News > 2017 > June > US Warns of 'DeltaCharlie' – A North Korean DDoS Botnet Malware (The Hackers News)
2017-06-14 05:23
The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation. The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided details on "DeltaCharlie," a malware variant used by "Hidden Cobra" hacking group to infect hundreds of thousands of computers globally as part of its DDoS botnet network.
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