Cyberattack on GitHub customers linked to North Korean hackers, Microsoft says

Microsoft is attributing a cyberattack on customers of software development platform GitHub to a previously unknown hacking group based in North Korea. This week, GitHub’s Alexis Wales published an alert about a “a low-volume social engineering campaign” targeting the personal accounts of employees of technology firms. The hackers used “a combination of repository invitations and

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