North Korean hackers gained access to networks of Russian missile manufacturer - Reuters

Hacker groups ScarCruft and Lazarus, which are associated with the North Korean government, hacked into the computer networks of the Russian military-industrial corporation NPO Mashinostroyenia. about this Reuters writes , citing data from the American cybersecurity company SentinelOne.

According to the agency, from the end of 2021 until May 2022, North Korean hackers secretly installed hidden digital backdoors in the systems of the missile design bureau, which is located in Reutov. SentinelOne experts claim that in this way they gained access to mail traffic and were also able to extract other data. The hack became known when one of the IT specialists at NPO Mashinostroyenia accidentally leaked the company’s internal correspondence.

SentinelOne is confident that North Korean hackers were behind the hack, as they used the same software as during other cyber attacks. Reuters writes that just a few months after the hacker attack, North Korean authorities announced some changes to their ballistic missile program. Whether this is related to the hack is unknown.

A European missile expert who has investigated North Korea's missile program, Markus Schiller, says it is unlikely Pyongyang would have been able to implement the information so quickly to improve its missiles.

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