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11303748863?profile=RESIZE_400xUS and South Korean intelligence agencies have issued a new alert warning of North Korean cyber actors' use of social engineering tactics to strike think tanks, academia, and news media sectors.  The "sustained information gathering efforts" have been attributed to a state-sponsored cluster called Kimsuky, which is also known by the names APT43, ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Emerald Sleet (previously Thallium), Nickel Kimball, and Velvet Chollima.  Active guys…..  "North Korea relies heavily on in

11026180301?profile=RESIZE_400xIn the cryptocurrency ecosystem, coins have a story, tracked in the unchangeable blockchains underpinning their economy.  The only exception, in some sense, is a cryptocurrency freshly generated by its owner's computational power.  Unsurprisingly, Kim Jong-Un’s North Korean hackers have begun adopting a new trick to launder the coins they steal from victims worldwide and use their dirty, stolen coins in services that allow them to mine innocent new ones.

Recently, cybersecurity investigators pub