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North Korea-backed cyber espionage campaign targets UK military


National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear and defence intelligence

The NCSC believes that Andariel is a part of DPRK’s reconnaissance general bureau (RGB) and that the group’s malicious cyber activities pose a continued threat to critical infrastructure organisations globally. US law enforcement agencies believe Andariel targeted five healthcare providers, four US-based defence contractors, two US air force bases and Nasa’s office of inspector general. In one operation that began in November 2022, the hackers accessed a US defence contractor from which they extracted more than 30 gigabytes of data, including unclassified technical information regarding material used in military aircraft and satellites.

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