FBI, CISA provide details on North Korean cyber group conducting espionage against defense interests

The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are providing details on a North Korean cyber group known to conduct espionage against defense industry organizations and finance their efforts through ransomware attacks on U.S. healthcare entities, in a joint advisory released alongside interagency and international partners.

“The group primarily targets defense, aerospace, nuclear, and engineering entities to obtain sensitive and classified technical information and intellectual property to advance the regime’s military and nuclear programs and ambitions,” the advisory says....