He also added that their systems were unaffected.

The alert came during Indias Chandrayaan-2 mission that started on July 22ndand ended on September 7th.

They targeted senior officials with emails that had malware attachments relevant to their subject, Kadakia said.

North Korea hackers breached India’s space agency during moon mission

He suspected that people opened the phishing emails sent by the hackers potentially unleashing malware into systems.

We know they were targeted, they got the link, they clicked on the link.

That much we can confirm so far, Kadakia added.

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Although the server was not hosted in North Korea, it was being used for these attacks.

We do have the email address of the targeted ISRO scientist but have not publicly disclosed that information yet.

source: www.techworm.net