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Friday, November 17, 2017

North Korea-linked 'fallchill' malware draws scrutiny from the feds

The US government is warning that North Korean state-sponsored hackers have been targeting the aerospace, telecommunications, and finance sectors since 2016 with malware that can secretly take over a computer.

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint alert Tuesday, which includes technical details about Fallchill, a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) that can give a hacker full control over a victim's computer, allowing them to search, read, write and move files, modify file timestamps, and delete any trace of an infection.

North Korean hackers spread Fallchill in two ways:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seems to me someone in our government better start worrying about getting the security right so our country can not be hacked or anything else. God knows what Obama and DNC has created on our countries files and has put into place.

Anonymous said...

First Verizon....now ATT. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Get ready to freeze your buns off in the cold this winter.