North Korea has created a fake version of South Korea's largest internet portal, Naver, in a large scale phishing attempt, Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Wednesday.

The fake portal, Naverportal.com, mimics Naver.com by providing a complete replica of real-time news, advertisement banners and even detailed menus from the real website in an effort to steal personal data from users, [1]according to the spy agency.

Previous North Korean Naver clones only copied the service's login page and tried to obtain logins and passwords.

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An NIS official said the imitation was so good it was "difficult to distinguish" between the two sites. NIS has asked the Korea Internet & Security Agency to shut down the now inaccessible phishing site.

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Naver is often been described as South Korea’s answer to Google. Although globally the site owns just 0.23 percent of the web search market, it is the [7]most used search engine in South Korea.

Last year, NIS reportedly [8]estimated North Korean hackers stole ₩100 billion ($78 million) worth of virtual assets from 2017 until the end of 2022. Global theft came in at around ₩1.5 trillion ($1.2 billion).

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Director general at South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kim Geon, met with US officials and discussed North Korea's cyber threat on Tuesday.

While in the US, Kim [10]met with Google subsidiary and cyber security firm Mandiant to "exchange opinions on the latest cyber threat trends in North Korea and to respond to them" and discuss public-private partnerships. ®

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[1] https://www.nis.go.kr:4016/CM/1_4/view.do?seq=236&currentPage=1&selectBox=&searchKeyword=&fromDate=&toDate=

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[3] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/02/us_south_korea_kimsuky_warning/

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/dprk_tech_freelancer_military_funding/

[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/06/samsung_naver_ai_chip/

[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/12/pink_drainer_crypto_scam/

[7] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1219834/south-korea-leading-search-engines-by-mau/

[8] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1144996480/crypto-hacking-north-korea-billion#:~:text=The%20NIS%20said%20state%2Dsponsored,total%20came%20from%20South%20Korea.

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[10] https://www.mofa.go.kr/www/brd/m_4080/view.do?seq=373786

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