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North Korean hackers are using malicious Google Chrome extensions to try and hack your data

North Korea.

North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been observed, once again, using malicious Google Chrome extensions to (mostly) target people in South Korea.

This time around, cybersecurity researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabz found a new campaign where hackers known as Kimsuky (AKA Velvet Chollima, a group known to be affiliated to the North Korean government) uploaded a piece of malware dubbed TRANSLATEXT to their GitHub repository on March 7. 

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