The Cyber Security Company said that a group of pirates associated with the North Korean system have downloaded an Android spy program on the Google Play app and were able to deceive some people to download it.
KOSPY spy program
According to “Lookout”, the espionage campaign included an Android spy program called KOSPY, which the company is responsible for “high confidence” to the North Korean government.
In the past few years, North Korea’s pirates topped news headlines, especially because of their bold operations to steal cryptocurrencies, such as theft of about $ 1.4 billion of Ethereum recently from the Pepte Cracks Trading platform, but in the case of this new spying campaign, all evidence indicates that it is a monitoring process, based on the spyware functions that Luke Kot monitored.
The goals of the North Korean spy campaign
The goals of the North Korean spy campaign are not yet known, but Christophe Hebesin, director of security intelligence research at Lookout, told Techcrunch that with a few downloads, the spy application is likely to target specific people.
According to “Lookout”, “KOSPY” collects a large amount of sensitive information, including SMS, call records, device site data, files and folders on the device, Wi -Fi network details and installed applications menu, “KOSPY” can also record sound and take pictures with phone cameras and take screen screenshots under use.
