(Reuters) — A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated a U.S. IT administration firm and used it as a springboard to focus on cryptocurrency corporations, in keeping with two sources aware of the matter.
The hackers broke into Louisville, Colorado-based JumpCloud in late June and used their entry to the corporate’s techniques to focus on its cryptocurrency firm shoppers in an effort to steal digital money, the sources stated.
The hack exhibits how North Korean cyber spies, as soon as content material with going after crypto corporations one by one, are actually tackling corporations that may give them entry to a number of sources of bitcoin and different digital currencies.
JumpCloud, which acknowledged the hack in a weblog publish final week and blamed it on a “refined nation-state-sponsored menace actor,” didn’t reply to Reuters’ questions on who was behind the hack and which shoppers had been affected.
A JumpCloud spokesperson stated fewer than 5 prospects had been impacted. Reuters couldn’t verify whether or not any digital forex was finally stolen because of the hack.