North Korea-linked hackers hide phishing command traffic inside GitHub in new LNK attacks
VPN Central [Unofficial]
April 5, 2026
A newly disclosed cyber campaign tied to North Korea-linked threat activity uses Windows shortcut files, or LNK files, to target organizations in South Korea while hiding attacker traffic inside GitHub. FortiGuard Labs says the operation relies on multi-stage scripts, decoy PDF files, and GitHub-hosted infrastructure to keep command traffic and stolen data blended into normal […]
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