Security News > 2019 > March > Researchers Link 'Sharpshooter' Cyber Attacks to North Korean Hackers

2019-03-04 16:03
Security researchers have finally, with "high confidence," linked a previously discovered global cyber espionage campaign targeting critical infrastructure around the world to a North Korean APT hacking group. Thanks to the new evidence collected by researchers after analyzing a command-and-control (C2) server involved in the espionage campaign and seized by law enforcement. Dubbed Operation
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