{"id":7687,"date":"2026-04-06T18:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:12:48","slug":"dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat\u00a0actors likely associated with the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South\u00a0Korea.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0attack chain,\u00a0per Fortinet FortiGuard\u00a0Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF\u00a0Threat\u00a0actors likely associated with the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South\u00a0Korea.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0attack chain,\u00a0per Fortinet FortiGuard\u00a0Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat\u00a0actors likely associated with the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South\u00a0Korea. The\u00a0attack chain,\u00a0per Fortinet FortiGuard\u00a0Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF\u00a0Threat\u00a0actors likely associated with the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7688,"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\/7687"}],"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=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}