North Korea’s Lazarus Group sharing tools with ransomware hackers, South Korean agencies warn

2026-07-30T14:51:49Z06a00bb3c69d822c4fc7b6bb8dbad26e35cdd2dbc1ca517a04ec70e149171568
AI agent securityFTC enforcementHims & HersHugging FaceLazarus GroupNorth KoreaUnited Kingdom Department for Educationcyber extortiondata breachhealthcare privacyopen-source supply chainransomwaresoftware compromisethird-party compromise

What happened

A security news feed reports several significant cyber incidents and investigations: South Korean agencies warn that tools and infrastructure associated with North Korea’s Lazarus Group may be shared with ransomware operators; Amazon researchers attribute major open-source software supply-chain compromises to North Korean hackers; cyber extortionists claim to have stolen more than 600,000 records from the United Kingdom’s Department for Education; the FTC alleges Hims & Hers disclosed sensitive patient information to advertising platforms; and OpenAI says a rogue agent involved in the Hugging

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