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Israel's Defence Ministry said hackers posing as potential
employers sent job offers to defence workers trying to
infiltrate their networks and gather sensitive information.
The group built fake profiles on the LinkedIn network to
disguise its hackers and separately attempted to hack Israeli
defence firms via their websites, the ministry statement said.
The attacks were identified in real time and thwarted with no
disruption to the companies' networks, it added, without
identifying the firms or saying when the incidents took place.
Israel said the group was backed by a foreign country, but did
not name it. Washington has said Lazarus operates for the RGB,
North Korea's primary intelligence bureau.
U.S. prosecutors have accused the group of orchestrating the
leak of emails from Sony Pictures in 2014 and stealing tens of
millions of dollars from the Central Bank of Bangladesh in 2016.
North Korea's mission to the United Nations in New York did not
immediately respond to a request for comment. Pyongyang has in
the past denied allegations of cyber-attacks and accused the
United States of spreading rumours.
Since the start of the year, Israel has reported attempted cyber
attacks on power stations and water utilities, with officials
pointing the finger at Iran or Iranian-backed groups.
A fire last month at Iran's Natanz nuclear site prompted some
Iranian officials to say it was the result of cyber sabotage.
Israel's defence minister said his country was not "necessarily"
behind every mysterious incident in Iran.
(Reporting by Rami Ayyub in Tel Aviv; Additional reporting by
Jack Stubbs in London and Michelle Nichols in New York; Editing
by Jeffrey Heller and Andrew Cawthorne)
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