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North Korean state-integrated hacking group Lazarus gained access to networks of defence and maritime companies · Not available
The North Korean state-integrated hacking group Lazarus gained access to the networks of defence and maritime companies over an undefined period, Russian IT security firm Kaspersky reported in its third-quarter report on 17 October 2023. Lazarus sent fake job offers to individual employees of the targeted companies via social media, which included malicious applications. They mainly used Trojanised Virtual Networking Clients (VNCs), through which a computer is compromised after the user selected certain servers in the Trojanised VNC. Specifically, this happened to a Hungarian nuclear engineer who received malicious files from a suspicious contact on Telegram and WhatsApp. The affected defence companies manufactured radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), military vehicles, ships and armament.