{"id":5850,"date":"2025-10-16T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/north-korean-hackers-use-etherhiding-to-hide-malware-inside-blockchain-smart-contracts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:11:45","slug":"north-korean-hackers-use-etherhiding-to-hide-malware-inside-blockchain-smart-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/north-korean-hackers-use-etherhiding-to-hide-malware-inside-blockchain-smart-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Hackers Use EtherHiding to Hide Malware Inside Blockchain Smart Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA threat actor with ties to the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method.<br \/>\nThe activity has been attributed by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat cluster it tracks as UNC5342,\u00a0A threat actor with ties to the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method.<br \/>\nThe activity has been attributed by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat cluster it tracks as UNC5342,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA threat actor with ties to the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method. The activity has been attributed by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/north-korean-hackers-use-etherhiding-to-hide-malware-inside-blockchain-smart-contracts\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korean Hackers Use EtherHiding to Hide Malware Inside Blockchain Smart Contracts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}