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Twitter Suspends North Korean Threat Actor Accounts

Twitter suspends accounts of N Koreans targeting security researchers. The accounts were being used by members of the DPRK, a North Korean government-backed threat group. Both accounts, @lagal1990 and @shiftrows13, posed as security researchers – leaning on the hype of 0 days to gain followers and build credibility. Researchers Francisco Alonso and Javier Marcos identified the threat actors and shared the information with Google’s Threat Analysis Group or TAG, which confirmed the findings. Despite being identified by the Google TAG team in January, the campaign did not cease to exist.”]

Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/twitter-suspends-north-korean-threat-actor-accounts-a-17750

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