North Korea Cyber Hack Hits US Ally

A North Korean cyberattack successfully infiltrated a strategic industry and lifted data that could help it overcome a technological blockade, an intelligence disclosure by the South said on Monday. In a warning to South Korea’s chipmakers and the wider semiconductor industry, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Seoul’s main spy agency, said at least two companies were targeted in the last three months. Hackers stole design drawings as well as photographs of equipment, the NIS said. North Korea’s state-backed cyber actors hit “Company A” and “Company B” in December, according to the disclosure, which said Company B was hit again last…