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Spear-phishing of more than 40 official email addresses of a Member State’s executive branch; WhatsApp targeting

Date (as written)
March and early April 2020
Year
2020
Actors (as written)
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cyberthreat actors
Actor pages
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cyberthreat actors
Tags (as written)
spear-phishing

Source entries (1)

UN Panel of Experts S/2020/840

Spear-phishing of more than 40 official email addresses of a Member State’s executive branch; WhatsApp targeting · March and early April 2020
Para 119: “The Member State further reported that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cyberthreat actors consistently targeted its officials with a variety of cyberoperations, and throughout March and early April 2020 more than 40 official email addresses belonging to an executive branch became the targets of spear-phishing messages; Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cyberactors have also targeted the personal WhatsApp accounts of its officials (see figure VIII).”
https://undocs.org/S/2020/840

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