South Korea says mystery hackers cracked advanced weapons servers

From theregister.co.uk

The South Korea Ministry of National Defense says 10 of its internal PCs have been compromised by North Korea unknown hackers .

Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo reports that the targeted machines belonged to the ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration, the office in charge of military procurement.

The report notes that the breached machines would have held information on purchases for things such as “next-generation fighter jets,” though the Administration noted that no confidential information was accessed by North Korea the yet-to-be identified infiltrators.

North Korea The mystery hackers got into the machines on October 4 of last year. Initially trying to break into 30 machines, the intruders only managed to compromise 10 of their targets.

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