Understanding the Context of Cyber Threats: Lessons from the Kimsuky Group Attack
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Understanding the Context of Cyber Threats: Lessons from the Kimsuky Group Attack
Kimsuky is the most active cyber threat actor who consistently targets North Korean-related institutions, companies, media, academia, and other organization, even individuals. The technical part related to this article was released on the blog, and in this article, I will provide the summary of the attack’s characteristics and highlight important points for responding to such attacks.
Characteristics of GoldDragon cluster of Kimsuky group.
In early 2022, the Kimsuky group carried out a sophisticated cyber attack against defense, political, and North Korea-related individuals. The attack had a complicated infection process from the initial infection to exfiltration, and each stage shows the following characteristics:
There were several other characteristics as well:
- Typically, it goes through a two-stage or more infection process. It can go through up to five stages or more. Eventually, it delivers the final payload to exfiltrate information.
- Scripts with the same …
Kimsuky is the most active cyber threat actor who consistently targets North Korean-related institutions, companies, media, academia, and other organization, even individuals. The technical part related to this article was released on the blog, and in this article, I will provide the summary of the attack’s characteristics and highlight important points for responding to such attacks.
Characteristics of GoldDragon cluster of Kimsuky group.
In early 2022, the Kimsuky group carried out a sophisticated cyber attack against defense, political, and North Korea-related individuals. The attack had a complicated infection process from the initial infection to exfiltration, and each stage shows the following characteristics:
There were several other characteristics as well:
- Typically, it goes through a two-stage or more infection process. It can go through up to five stages or more. Eventually, it delivers the final payload to exfiltrate information.
- Scripts with the same …