N. Korea-backed hackers launch newly detected cyberattack scheme using computer files: report

A North Korea-linked cyber hacking group appears to have launched a new cyberattack campaign, code-named “Artemis,” that embeds malicious code inside computer files, a report showed Monday.

The Genians Security Center (GSC), a South Korean cybersecurity institute, said in a report that it detected the operation believed to have been carried out by APT37, a Pyongyang-backed cyber hacking group.

According to the report, the threat actors embedded malicious object linking and embedding (OLE) code inside Hangul Word Processor (HWP) documents. An attack chain is triggered when a user allows the opening of the document’s content and clicks a hyperlink in the file.

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