North Korean hackers are skimming US and European shoppers
North Korean state sponsored hackers are implicated in the interception of online payments from American and European shoppers, Sansec research shows.
Hackers associated with the APT Lazarus/HIDDEN COBRA group were found to be breaking into online stores of large US retailers and planting payment skimmers as early as May 2019, says the Sansec Threat Research Team. "Previously, North Korean hacking activity was mostly restricted to banks and South Korean crypto markets, covert cyber operations that earned hackers $2 billion, according to a 2019 United Nations report. As Sansec’s new research shows, they have now extended their portfolio with the profitable crime of digital skimming," says the research team.