Organizations have been targeted by North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation Kimsuky with new spear-phishing attacks that deployed different backdoors, including AppleSeed, TinyNuke, and Meterpreter, The Hacker News reports. Further payload delivery and data exfiltration activities have been conducted by Kimsuky through the Windows-based backdoor AppleSeed, also known as JamBog, with the group also leveraging the malware’s Golang-based variant AlphaSeed in intrusions since October 2022, a report from the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center revealed.

Source: SC Magazine