CYBERSECURITY NEWS: UK NCSC & South Korea´s NIS and issue joint advisory

28th November 2023 

CYBERSECURITY NEWS: UK NCSC & South Korea´s NIS and issue joint advisory 

Syndicated By: Iain Fraser/Cyber PR Wire

via IainFRASER.net/CyberPRWire

CYBERSECURITY NEWS: NCSC & South Korea´s NIS and issue joint advisory warning about DPRK state-linked cyber actors attacking software supply chains.

Joint advisory observes cyber actors leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits in third-party software. Cyber actors linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting software supply chain products to attack organisations around the world, the UK and the Republic of Korea have warned.

In a new joint advisory, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ – and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) have detailed how DPRK state-linked cyber actors have been using increasingly sophisticated techniques to gain access to victims’ systems.

The actors have been observed leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits in third-party software to gain access to specific targets or indiscriminate organisations via their supply chains. Learn More /...

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The NCSC Supports the most critical organisations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs as well as the general public. When incidents do occur, we provide effective incident response to minimise harm to the UK, help with recovery, and learn lessons for the future. Learn More /...