Security News > 2024 > November > North Korean Hackers Steal $10M with AI-Driven Scams and Malware on LinkedIn

2024-11-23 11:53
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Sapphire Sleet is estimated to have stolen more than $10 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of social engineering campaigns orchestrated over a six-month period. These findings come from Microsoft, which said that multiple threat activity clusters with ties to the country have been observed creating fake profiles on LinkedIn, posing as both
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