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North Korea has tried to hack 11 officials of the UN Security Council
New UN Security Council report reveals repeated targeting of UN Security Council officials over the past year.
A hacker group previously associated with the North Korean regime has been spotted launching spear-phishing attacks to compromise officials part of the United Nations Security Council.
The attacks, disclosed in a UN report last month, have taken place this year and have targeted at least 28 UN officials, including at least 11 individuals representing six countries of the UN Security Council.
UN officials said they learned of the attacks after being alerted by an unnamed UN member state (country).
The attacks were attributed to a North Korean hacker group known in the cyber-security community by the codename of Kimsuky.
According to the UN report, Kimsuky operations took place across March and April this year and consisted of a series of spear-phishing campaigns aimed at the Gmail accounts of UN officials.
The emails were designed to look like UN security alerts or requests for interviews from reporters, both designed to convince officials to access phishing pages or run malware files on their systems.
The country which reported the Kimsuky attacks to the UN Security Council also said that similar campaigns were also carried out against members of its own government, with some of the attacks taking place via WhatsApp, and not just email.
Furthermore, the same country informed the UN that Kimsuky attacks have extremely persistent with the North Korean hacker group pursuing "certain individuals throughout the 'lifetime' of their [government] career."
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New UN Security Council report reveals repeated targeting of UN Security Council officials over the past year.
A hacker group previously associated with the North Korean regime has been spotted launching spear-phishing attacks to compromise officials part of the United Nations Security Council.
The attacks, disclosed in a UN report last month, have taken place this year and have targeted at least 28 UN officials, including at least 11 individuals representing six countries of the UN Security Council.
UN officials said they learned of the attacks after being alerted by an unnamed UN member state (country).
The attacks were attributed to a North Korean hacker group known in the cyber-security community by the codename of Kimsuky.
According to the UN report, Kimsuky operations took place across March and April this year and consisted of a series of spear-phishing campaigns aimed at the Gmail accounts of UN officials.
The emails were designed to look like UN security alerts or requests for interviews from reporters, both designed to convince officials to access phishing pages or run malware files on their systems.
The country which reported the Kimsuky attacks to the UN Security Council also said that similar campaigns were also carried out against members of its own government, with some of the attacks taking place via WhatsApp, and not just email.
Furthermore, the same country informed the UN that Kimsuky attacks have extremely persistent with the North Korean hacker group pursuing "certain individuals throughout the 'lifetime' of their [government] career."
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ZDNet
North Korea has tried to hack 11 officials of the UN Security Council
New UN Security Council report reveals repeated targeting of UN Security Council officials over the past year.
#Atlantic #Council Praised #Ukraine’s #Nazi #Azov Battalion in 2014
The NATO military alliance’s de facto think tank, the Atlantic Council, promoted a notorious neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, the Azov Battalion, in a 2014 article that depicted the fascist extremists as anti-Russian heroes.
The Atlantic Council is one of the most powerful think tanks in Washington. With funding from the U.S. State Department, numerous Western governments, NATO, and the weapons industry, it plays a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward Russia. In 2018, the council formed a partnership with Facebook to identify emerging threats and disinformation campaigns around the world. Within a few months, Facebook wiped out in the coordinated purge dozens of popular independent media sites run by Americans that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. military interventionism—such as The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block, along with the pages of journalists like Rachel Blevins.
In June 2014, Atlantic Council published a report titled “The Battle For Mariupol.” It was little more than a press release for Azov, written by a reporter who embedded inside the neo-Nazi militia. The article was posted in the think tank’s “New Atlanticist” blog. It identified the author, Askold Krushelnycky, simply as a “British journalist embedded with the Azov Battalion.”
Azov preaches a white supremacist Nazi ideology that portrays Ukrainians as a pure white race fighting “Asiatic” Russians in a war to maintain racial purity.
In a policy reversal last week, Facebook suddenly allowed the praise of Azov Battalion, the neo-nazi Ukrainian group previously banned under the company’s Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy.
Sources:
➨ consortiumnews.com/2022/02/28/atlantic-council-praised-ukraines-nazi-azov-battalion
➨ archive.ph/A4udW
➨ about.fb.com/news/2018/05/announcing-new-election-partnership-with-the-atlantic-council
➨ mintpressnews.com/facebook-partners-hawkish-atlantic-council-nato-lobby-group-protect-democracy/242289
➨ thegrayzone.com/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-says-top-neocon-insider
➨ theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
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The NATO military alliance’s de facto think tank, the Atlantic Council, promoted a notorious neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, the Azov Battalion, in a 2014 article that depicted the fascist extremists as anti-Russian heroes.
The Atlantic Council is one of the most powerful think tanks in Washington. With funding from the U.S. State Department, numerous Western governments, NATO, and the weapons industry, it plays a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward Russia. In 2018, the council formed a partnership with Facebook to identify emerging threats and disinformation campaigns around the world. Within a few months, Facebook wiped out in the coordinated purge dozens of popular independent media sites run by Americans that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. military interventionism—such as The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block, along with the pages of journalists like Rachel Blevins.
In June 2014, Atlantic Council published a report titled “The Battle For Mariupol.” It was little more than a press release for Azov, written by a reporter who embedded inside the neo-Nazi militia. The article was posted in the think tank’s “New Atlanticist” blog. It identified the author, Askold Krushelnycky, simply as a “British journalist embedded with the Azov Battalion.”
Azov preaches a white supremacist Nazi ideology that portrays Ukrainians as a pure white race fighting “Asiatic” Russians in a war to maintain racial purity.
In a policy reversal last week, Facebook suddenly allowed the praise of Azov Battalion, the neo-nazi Ukrainian group previously banned under the company’s Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy.
Sources:
➨ consortiumnews.com/2022/02/28/atlantic-council-praised-ukraines-nazi-azov-battalion
➨ archive.ph/A4udW
➨ about.fb.com/news/2018/05/announcing-new-election-partnership-with-the-atlantic-council
➨ mintpressnews.com/facebook-partners-hawkish-atlantic-council-nato-lobby-group-protect-democracy/242289
➨ thegrayzone.com/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-says-top-neocon-insider
➨ theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
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Consortiumnews
Atlantic Council Praised Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion
The Atlantic Council report was little more than a press release for Azov, written by a reporter who embedded inside the neo-Nazi militia, reports Ben Norton.
By Ben Norton
Multipolarista.com
The NATO military alliance’s de facto…
By Ben Norton
Multipolarista.com
The NATO military alliance’s de facto…