The US government has taken the unusual step of naming the North Korean government as behind a hacking group it has dubbed “Hidden Cobra”. The US computer emergency response team (CERT) today issued an alert revealing the group had been targeting the media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors globally since 2009.
While the US government has labelled the North Korean group Hidden Cobra, it is also known as the Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace.
Hidden Cobra is believed to be behind the high-profile hack on Sony Pictures and Entertainment in 2014.
The group has also been linked to the recent WannaCry ransomware epidemic – security researchers found shared code in the malware that the Lazarous Group had used in the past.