South Korean and German intelligence agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory on Monday warning that North Korean hacking syndicate Kimsuky is targeting experts on Korean Peninsula affairs through attacks on Google services.

Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) stated that the advanced persistent threat (APT) group has targeted entities from both countries through spear-phishing emails in recent years, but warned that it could go even further by using its new methods to target security think tanks. 

According to the advisory, the new methods