Such a deal, until the check bounced.
Too bad so sad.
Posted on 08/09/2023 11:03:28 AM PDT by nuconvert
An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers.
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
It’s too bad they couldn’t hack into the accounts of Gyorgy Schwartz and make his illegally obtained wealth disappear!
Such a deal, until the check bounced.
Too bad so sad.
Reuters article is dated 7 August, as is the SentinelOne article published on their commercial website. It is SentinelOne "news" which Reuters promotes by reprinting.
This should be placed in some context. Recall we were tapping Angela Merkel's phone when she was chancellor in Germany. Spying goes on all the time. In all sorts of directions. So a business opportunity is to offer "cyber-protection." Surprise! That's the business which SentinelOne is in.
Reuters says:"An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers." Reuters 7 August 2023.
"...according to Tom Hegel, a security researcher with U.S. cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, who initially discovered the compromise." So it is essentially a reprint of the SentinelOne article. That article is "Comrades in Arms? | North Korea Compromises Sanctioned Russian Missile Engineering Company" AUGUST 7, 2023
Source: https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/comrades-in-arms-north-korea-compromises-sanctioned-russian-missile-engineering-company/
Pretty quick work for Reuters, eh? Promoting SentinelOne, which promotes its cybersecurity products.
Neither Russia nor North Korea are target customers, so one may think to which potential customer(s) this promotion is targeting.
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