U.S. government issues alerts about North Korean cyber attacks
The new warnings from US-CERT come five months after a technical alert posted in June that implicated Hidden Cobra (which has also been called Lazarus Group and Guardians of the Peace by security experts) in a series of cyber attacks that date back to 2009 and include the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. The Department of Homeland Security team responsible for analyzing cybersecurity threats, has posted a warning about cyber attacks by the North Korean government, which it collectively refers to as “Hidden Cobra.” The technical alert from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security says a remote administration tool (RAT) called FALLCHILL has been deployed by Hidden Cobra since 2016 to target the aerospace, telecommunications and finance industries. FALLCHILL allows Hidden Cobra to issue commands to a victim’s server by dual proxies, which means it can potentially perform actions like retrieving information about all installed disks, accessing files, modifying file or director...