North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google

North Korea’s hackers homed in on specific infosec researchers and infected their systems with a backdoor after luring them to a suspicious website, Google revealed on Monday. The internet giant’s Threat Analysis Group said Pyongyang’s snoops would send private messages to their targets – primarily folks investigating software security vulnerabilities – via Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, Discord, Keybase or plain ol’ email, and try to lure the marks to a blog promising details of exploitable bugs.

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