Google believes that hackers in North Korea are pretending to be cybersecurity bloggers and targeting researchers in the field on social media platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn.

The search giant announced that its Threat Analysis Group has "identified an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations. The campaign is so sophisticated the threat actors are able to bot Facebook and Twitter accounts to make it look like the researchers have compromised their own systems.

The researchers that are being targeted are also the researchers to whom the company shares security updates. As such, even the security researchers trying to stay to the path of the research are falling victim. Vulnerability researchers are still finding zero days or zero day flaws in their systems, open to public exploitation and risks.

Sometimes, unlike other attacks, the Security Researchers gets aware of the attack either through an exfiltration of their emails, or their personal information stored across the Internet.

In a blog post, Google promised to take swift action when it has found hackers behind a specific incident. As Google believes that a lot of the activity behind these hacks remain unconfirmed, they call upon researchers to put a little time on a task before giving out info.

Who among you can repair this vulnerability in the first place? I have to look in a few months' time to see if the target just signed that up for your billing. The subject of this article is dear and exempt from task because you otherwise think I give so scant attention to the issue.

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