National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear
and defence intelligence
North Korean state-backed hackers have mounted a campaign to obtain secrets
related to nuclear materials, military drones, submarines and shipbuilding in
the UK and US, as intelligence agencies warned of a “global cyber-espionage
campaign” targeting sensitive industries.
A joint notice from the US, UK and South Korea warned that the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was using state-backed attackers to further
the regime’s military and nuclear ambitions. It added that Japan and India had
also been targeted.
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Officials seized documents from NSO Group to try to stop handover of information
about notorious hacking tool, files suggest
The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US
lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the
world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest.
Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer,
NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with
demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the
invasive technology.
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