WASHINGTON ¨C A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company and used it as a springboard to target cryptocurrency companies, the firm and cybersecurity experts said on Thursday.
The hackers broke into Louisville, Colorado-based JumpCloud in late June and used their access to the company¡¯s systems to target ¡°fewer than 5¡± of its clients, it said in a blog post.
JumpCloud did not identify the customers affected, but cybersecurity firms CrowdStrike Holdings ¡ª which is assisting JumpCloud ¡ª and Alphabet-owned Mandiant ¡ª which is assisting one of JumpCloud¡¯s clients ¡ª both said the hackers involved were known to focus on cryptocurrency theft.
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