New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- On January 25, 2021, the Threat Analysis Group of Google published an update report titled, "New campaign targeting security researchers". The report is in public domain and can be accessed universally.

The report begins by mentioning that "over the past several months, the Threat Analysis Group has identified an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations.

The actors behind this campaign, which we attribute to a government-backed entity based in North Korea, have employed a number of means to target researchers which we will outline below.

We hope this post will remind those in the security research community that they ...