Get the latest tech news
Lovers' Spat? North Korea Backdoors Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry
First Brad and Jennifer, now Kim and Putin? Romance truly is dead, as North Korea is caught spying (again) on its partner to the north with the Konni malware.
More interesting than the gift, though, was the wrapping — it came bundled inside of a Russian-language installer, apparently associated with a tool called "Statistika KZU" (Cтатистика КЗУ). "It shows that the DPRK did their research here for a very specific hook into their victims, and is, ironically, a more targeted and precise adaptation of the approach Russian intelligence used with NotPetya." "We are unable to offer any concrete conclusions in this regard," they wrote, but added that "Konni-linked activity targeting Russian foreign policy end-targets including the MID has been observed for many years, potentially providing many opportunities for internal tool identification and subsequent acquisition or exfiltration for backdooring purposes."
Or read this on r/technology
