ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows

Source: The Hacker News

Overview

The North Korea‑aligned state‑sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video‑game platform in a supply‑chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCall to likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China.

While prior versions of the backdoor have primarily targeted Windows users only, the supply‑chain attack is assessed to have enabled the…