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TWITTER ACCOUNT OF US TOP CYBERSECURITY DIPLOMAT HACKED

Updated on: 06 February 2023
 * Anna Zhadan
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US top cybersecurity diplomat and the head of the US State Department’s Bureau
for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Nathaniel Fick, said that his Twitter account
has been hacked, adding that it’s “perils of the job.”

It remains unclear who stands behind the hack of how they might have made use of
Fick’s account. He was due to fly to Seoul this week for cybersecurity
cooperation-related talks with the South Korean government.

The diplomat owns an unverified personal Twitter channel with around 5,000
followers, where he posts “mostly weather, mountain biking, and backcountry
skiing.” He prefers to be represented by the official Bureau of Cyberspace and
Digital Policy account for professional matters.

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Fick now leads the newly-formed Bureau, which is aiming to make digital rights
issues an "intrinsic part of US foreign policy” during times of heightened
pressure from foreign actors like China and Russia.

President Joe Biden allegedly expressed his intent to nominate Fick for the
position back in June, and the diplomat was formally sworn into office in
September as America’s first “ambassador-at-large” for cyberspace and digital
policy.

Meanwhile, North Korean threat actors have been actively going after southern
targets. As such, a North Korean APT group Lazarus has been using credential
phishing attacks in a campaign against South Korea for over a year.

Similarly, North Korean-backed hackers planted malicious software in Microsoft
Office documents disguised to look like a South Korean government report on the
Halloween crush, Google’s anti-hacking unit, to spread malware back in 2022.



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