Nils Weisensee is Chief Product Officer at Korea Risk Group and covers cybersecurity for NK PRO. He previously founded information security firm Frontier Intelligence, served as head of operations at non-profit Choson Exchange, and was a reporter for DAPD and the Associated Press.
Attackers impersonate reporters at Voice Of America to lure DPRK experts with legal documents out of Pyongyang
Lazarus Group reportedly used Tor network to hide tracks after highly persistent social engineering campaign
Researchers find link between “malware-as-a-service” providers and DPRK cyber thieves with stolen bitcoins to spend
Pyongyang is hurting and uses hackers to ease that pain, but Washington is unlikely to waste its powers on crypto theft
Lazarus Group suspected of a social engineering attack that uses GDPR notice on fake job offer sent via LinkedIn
Security firm sees “malware lineage” across hacking units as U.S. agencies link malicious code variant to DPRK
Lazarus Group spent months on risky social engineering campaign to steal sensitive data, researchers found
Cyber groups linked to DPRK hide illicit trade and cash out stolen funds via ‘altcoin’ transfers, Panel of Experts finds
Dozens of government accounts received malicious emails this year from cybercrime groups linked to the DPRK
Reward issued after North Korea threatens interference in American presidential vote
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