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By Rami Ayyub
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel said Wednesday that it had foiled a cyberattack on its defense through a piracy organization known as Lazarus, which the United States says is run through North Korea’s intelligence services.
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 its websites, according to the ministry’s statement.
The attacks were known in real time and frustrated the disruption of corporate networks, added, identifying corporations or saying when the incidents occurred.
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.
North Korea’s project to the United Nations in New York did not respond to a request for comment. Pyongyang has denied cyberattack accusations in the afterlife and has accused the United States of spreading rumors.
Since the beginning of the year, Israel has reported attempts at cyberattacks against power plants and water services, with officials pointing the finger at 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)