North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

North Korea photoOn February 14, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released six (6) new Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) and one (1) updated MAR related to malicious cyber activity from North Korea. Each MAR is designed to enable network defenders to identify and reduce exposure to North Korean government malicious cyber activity. CISA encourages users and administrators to carefully review these MARs for each malware variant listed below.

Each MAR includes malware descriptions, suggested response actions, and recommended mitigation techniques. Users or administrators should flag activity associated with the malware and report the activity to CISA or the FBI Cyber Watch (CyWatch), and give the activity the highest priority for enhanced mitigation.

The information contained in these most recent seven (7) MARs, as well as the previous work linked below, is the result of analytic efforts between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and the FBI to provide technical details on the tools and infrastructure used by cyber actors of the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to the malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA.

North Korea photoFor additional information on previous HIDDEN COBRA alerts and MARs, please see: