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| DATE | 2020-08-22 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] cyberwars in full gear
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wsj.com
Israel Says It Beat Attack by North Korean Cyber Group Under U.S. Sanctions
Felicia Schwartz
4-5 minutes
Israeli soldiers during an exercise last week in the Israel-occupied
Golan Heights, near the disputed border between Syria and Israel.
Photo: Ayal Margolin/JINI/Xinhua/Zuma Press
Aug. 12, 2020 12:16 pm ET
TEL AVIV—Israel said Wednesday that it thwarted a North Korean cyber
group’s attempt to steal sensitive information from leading defense
companies in the country.
Israel’s Defense Ministry identified the group as Lazarus and said it is
backed by a foreign country, though it didn’t name North Korea.
Lazarus was sanctioned by the U.S. last year. The U.S. said the
state-sponsored North Korean group has a history of high-profile global
hacking attempts aimed at foreign businesses, government agencies,
financial-services infrastructure, private corporations and the defense
industry.
Israel’s Defense Ministry said members of Lazarus built fake profiles on
LinkedIn to contact employees of Israel’s leading defense companies and
offer them jobs. In the process of sending job offers, members of the
group tried to compromise computers of employees, access their corporate
networks and obtain sensitive security information.
Israel’s Defense Ministry, headed by Benny Gantz, said hackers built
fake LinkedIn profiles to reach employees of the nation’s top defense
companies.
Photo: Tal Shahar/Press Pool
The North Korean hackers also tried to hack companies’ official
websites, the ministry said.
It didn’t identify which Israeli defense companies were targeted but
said their networks weren’t harmed or disrupted. It said it has launched
an investigation into the attempted hack but didn’t say when it occurred.
North Korea has denied involvement in hacking attacks.
South Korean officials have sorted North Korea’s cyber-attacking
operation into three teams: The A team—often called Lazarus by foreign
research firms—attacks foreign banks and companies; the B team focuses
on South Korea; and the C team blasts out emails and collects
information, they say.
Researchers say North Korea has expanded its efforts to target global
institutions.
The U.S. said Lazarus was behind the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures
Entertainment Inc. and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks, which
scrambled computer systems in more than 100 countries, including that of
the U.K.’s National Health Service.
Earlier this year, Israel said it thwarted an Iranian attempt to disrupt
its water supply with a cyberattack. It later targeted the
command-and-control system at an Iranian port in Bandar Abbas, according
to a foreign security official with knowledge of the Israeli operation.
That resulted in dozens of cargo ships congesting the harbor.
Write to Felicia Schwartz at Felicia.Schwartz-at-wsj.com
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