North Korea’s mission to the United Nations in New York did not respond to a request for comment. Russia’s embassy in Washington did not respond to an emailed request for comment. NPO Mashinostroyeniya did not respond to requests from Reuters for comment. In the months following the digital break-in Pyongyang announced several developments in its banned ballistic missile programme but it is not clear if this was related to the breach.Įxperts say the incident shows how the isolated country will even target its allies, such as Russia, in a bid to acquire critical technologies. Reuters could not determine whether any data was taken during the intrusion or what information may have been viewed.
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow. An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers.
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