Security News > 2023 > December > Kimsuky Hackers Deploying AppleSeed, Meterpreter, and TinyNuke in Latest Attacks
2023-12-29 09:09
Nation-state actors affiliated to North Korea have been observed using spear-phishing attacks to deliver an assortment of backdoors and tools such as AppleSeed, Meterpreter, and TinyNuke to seize control of compromised machines. South Korea-based cybersecurity company AhnLab attributed the activity to an advanced persistent threat group known as Kimsuky. “A notable point about attacks that
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