US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) this week shared 11 malware samples linked to the notorious North Korean state-backed APT known as Lazarus group or Hidden Cobra, by uploading the samples to malware analysis platform VirusTotal. All of the samples target Windows systems and many of them have been regularly detected by the platform.
Since November of last year, USCYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) has occasionally shared malware samples with the the infosec community with the aim of boosting cybersecurity across the globe. CNMF has previously shared malware linked to Russian and Iranian threat actors.
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