Sony confirms cyber-attack exposed details of nearly 7000 current and former employees

Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the personal information of 6,791 former and current employees was exposed as part of a cyber-attack in June. According to a report the data breach was carried out by the Clop ransomware group. Sony is Read More …

FBI Mapping ‘Joanap Malware’ Victims to Disrupt the North Korean Botnet

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Wednesday its effort to “map and further disrupt” a botnet tied to North Korea that has infected numerous Microsoft Windows computers across the globe over the last decade. Dubbed Joanap, the botnet is Read More …

U.S. Ties Lazarus to North Korea and Major Hacking Conspiracy

The DoJ said a DPRK spy, Park Jin-hyok, was involved in “a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world.” The Justice Department has charged a North Korean man in the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in 2014 Read More …

ThaiCERT Seizes Hidden Cobra Server Linked to GhostSecret, Sony Attacks

Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ThaiCERT) has seized a server operated by the North Korea-linked Hidden Cobra APT, which is used to control the global GhostSecret espionage campaign. The campaign is still ongoing. ThaiCERT said in an alert on Wednesday that it Read More …