Israel’s Defense Ministry said hackers posing as potential employers had sent tasks to the defense that sought to infiltrate their networks and collect sensitive information.
The organization created fake profiles on the LinkedIn network to disguise its hackers and attempted to hack Israeli defense corporations through their websites, according to the ministry’s statement.
Israel stated that the organization supported through a foreign country, but did not call it. Washington said Lazarus operates for the RGB, North Korea’s largest intelligence office.
U.S. prosecutors accused the organization of orchestrating the leak of emails from Sony Pictures in 2014 and stealing tens of millions from the Central Bank of Bangladesh in 2016.
Since the beginning of the year, Israel has reported attempts at cyberattacks on power plants and water services, and officials point to Iran or Iran-backed groups.
A chimney last month at the Natanz nuclear site in Iran led some Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage. Israel’s defense minister said his country was not “necessarily” every and every one of the mysterious incidents in Iran. (Information through Rami Ayyub in Tel Aviv; Additional information through Jack Stubbs in London and Michelle Nichols in New York; Edited through Jeffrey Heller and Andrew Cawthorne)
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