Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-12-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: Three organizations in South Korea and abroad
Affected country: Korea (the Republic of)
Industry: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: Separately, the Seoul Metropolitan Police investigators discover that the group extorted three ransomware victims in South Korea and abroad for about $357,000 worth of Bitcoin.