North Korean Hacker Group Seen Behind Crypto Attack in South

The same North Korean hacking outfit associated with the Sony Pictures Entertainment data theft was behind attacks on South Korean cryptocurrency users and exchanges toward the end of last year, U.S.-based researchers said.

Lazarus Group, an organization thought be tied to the North Korean government, launched a so-called spear-phishing campaign against crypto users in the weeks preceding the opening of talks with South Korea, according to a Jan. 16 report from Insikt, a research team at Recorded Future.

The cybersecurity company said it found technical similarities between those incursions and other North Korean-linked activities, including the data heist at Sony ...