{"id":2378,"date":"2019-02-05T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:27:50","slug":"sharpshooter-is-attacking-nuclear-defense-energy-and-financial-businesses-mcafee-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/security\/sharpshooter-is-attacking-nuclear-defense-energy-and-financial-businesses-mcafee-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpshooter is Attacking Nuclear, Defense, Energy, and Financial Businesses: McAfee Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee says it&#8217;s discovered a significant cybercrime performance called&#8221;Sharpshooter&#8221; which is assaulting nuclear, defense, energy, and financial companies.<\/p>\n<p>The assault is allegedly run by North Korean state-sponsored Investors targeting businesses in the usa, or English-speaking companies across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage in time, the hackers are not producing any concrete movements, but rather, are concentrated on information collecting, becoming as much info regarding their goal systems as possible.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be via highly personalized phishing attacks posing as a work recruitment service, sending Word files in localized, Korean which are now hiding malware, letting the hackers to set up an in-memory module which dials a management server.<\/p>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/review\/how-to-check-body-temperature-with-iphone\/\">How To Check Body Temperature With iPhone?<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Next, when the PC handles to link to the host, it is going to download the real malware, known as Rising Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The assault is motivated by the Lazarus Group and their approaches, McAfee states, insinuating that it may be exactly the exact same group this time around, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operation Sharpshooter&#8217;s many technological links into the Lazarus Group look overly clear to instantly draw the conclusion that they&#8217;re accountable for the strikes, and rather indicate a possibility of fictitious flags,&#8221; McAfee says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee says it&#8217;s discovered a significant cybercrime performance called&#8221;Sharpshooter&#8221; which is assaulting nuclear, defense, energy, and financial companies. The assault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":2379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}