North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons programme, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday.
The hackers, dubbed Anadriel or APT45 by cybersecurity researchers, are believed to be part of North Korea's intelligence agency known as the Reconnaissance General Bureau, an entity sanctioned by the U.S. in 2015.
In April 2024, FrostyGoop, an ICS malware, was discovered in a publicly available malware scanning repository. FrostyGoop can target devices communicating over Modbus TCP to manipulate control, modify parameters, and send unauthorized command messages. Modbus is a commonly used protocol across all industrial sectors. The Cyber Security Situation Center (CSSC), a part of the Security
The Sykhiv residential area in Lviv was left without hot water and heating as a result of a hacker attack on Lvivteploenergo. This is reported on the company's website.
"The hacker attack disrupted the heat supply management system. Work is underway to restore heating and hot water supply in the Sykhiv residential area. The estimated time of restoration is 21:00," the statement said.
Veteran cybercriminals appear to be reducing their dependence on ransomware-as-a-service platforms — a sign that law enforcement raids are having an impact. Experts say the market for digital extortion tools has plenty of room to adapt, though.
CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.
A Wednesday update to its remediation guide added a preliminary post incident review (PIR) that offers the antivirus maker's view of how it brought down 8.5 million Windows boxes.
