Specialist are seemingly surprised by malware tactics used by hackers from North Korea to access emails and attachment from users Gmail account that has been infiltrated. This malware are very effective to penetrate account liable to vulnerability.
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A security firm called Volexity made research on dubious SHARPEXT malware to analyze possible solutions that can surpass it. Volexity initiate an active method to install a browser extension for the Chrome and Edge browsers. Volexity has supported their report to state browser extension to be fully defensive from attack.
As multifactor authentication has been enabled in browsers, account will have not get penetrated easily.
Volexity concludes SHARPEXT hacking group has been in existence for more than one year. Thus cyber incident initiated from this threat actors are fully sponsored by North Korean government.
Kimusky is discovered to be another hacking group supported by North korean. Although SHARPEXT concentrate on rivalry coutries such as organisations in Europe, US and South Korea that works on nuclear weapons and North Korean major national security.
Steven Adair, the Volexity president disclosed techniques used to initiate cyber attack. Social engineering is used on target to gather information about them and to exploit their account. Spear phishing was used to trick specific individuals with high-profile to click malicious links. When this links are clicked, hackers become authorised to download attachment, obtain database and controls infrastructure of the system.
Security measures, cybersecurity solutions and tools should be implemented.
