{"id":7465,"date":"2026-03-17T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/konni-deploys-endrat-through-phishing-uses-kakaotalk-to-propagate-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:11:57","slug":"konni-deploys-endrat-through-phishing-uses-kakaotalk-to-propagate-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/konni-deploys-endrat-through-phishing-uses-kakaotalk-to-propagate-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNorth Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim&#8217;s KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts.<br \/>\nThe activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking group referred to as Konni.<br \/>\n&#8220;Initial access was achieved through a spear-phishing email disguised as a\u00a0North Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim&#8217;s KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts.<br \/>\nThe activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking group referred to as Konni.<br \/>\n&#8220;Initial access was achieved through a spear-phishing email disguised as a\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNorth Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim&#8217;s KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts. The activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking group referred to as Konni. &#8220;Initial access was achieved through a spear-phishing&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/konni-deploys-endrat-through-phishing-uses-kakaotalk-to-propagate-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7466,"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\/7465"}],"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=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}