North Korean hacking group behind recent attacks on banks

High profile cyberbreaches: Lazarus has already been blamed for a string of hacks dating back to at least 2009, including last year's US$81mil (RM359mil) heist from Bangladesh's central bank.

BOSTON: A North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus was likely behind a recent cyber campaign targeting organisations in 31 countries, following high-profile attacks on Bangladesh Bank, Sony and South Korea, cyber security firm Symantec Corp said on Wednesday.

Symantec said in a blog that researchers have uncovered four pieces of digital evidence suggesting the Lazarus group was behind the campaign that sought to infect victims with "loader" software used to stage attacks by installing other malicious programs.