North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Toolkit Against South Korean Media and Automakers

The emergence of a previously unseen espionage toolkit suggests adversaries are refining infrastructure attacks to move beyond traditional endpoints, raising the stakes for critical sector defense and network architecture hardening across allied nations.
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