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Plus: The US indicts North Koreans in fake IT worker scheme, file-sharing firm Cleo warns customers to patch a vulnerability amid live attacks, and more.
For years, North Korean nationals posing as tech workers have tried to get hired by global businesses so they can send their wages back to help the Hermit Kingdom pay for its nuclear programs. Researchers from Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant who focus on North Korea say that in recent months they’ve seen IT workers following through on leaking sensitive data and demanding more cryptocurrency than ever before—although, they say this desperation could be a sign of the schemes becoming less effective. For five years, UK cybersecurity firm Sophos engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious group of Chinese hackers targeting the company’s firewalls as a vector to break into its customers’ networks, as WIRED chronicled in October.
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