{"id":11911,"date":"2026-04-07T07:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:04:21","slug":"dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in-html\/","title":{"rendered":"DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Threat\u00a0actors likely associated with the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South\u00a0Korea.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0attack chain,\u00a0per Fortinet FortiGuard\u00a0Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/dprk-linked-hackers-use-github-as-c2-in.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea Threat\u00a0actors likely associated with the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South\u00a0Korea. The\u00a0attack chain,\u00a0per Fortinet FortiGuard\u00a0Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}