{"id":19815,"date":"2026-04-06T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:24:00","slug":"dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-multi-stage-attacks-targeting-south-korea-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threat\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<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat\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 PDFRead More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}