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DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea

April 6, 2026 · 3 min read

Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF

This article was originally reported by The Hacker News. Read the full article on their site.

Source: The Hacker News

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