North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's "Find Hub" service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets.

Researchers at South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians said the campaign, attributed to the long-running KONNI group, abused Google's device management features to trigger factory resets on compromised smartphones and tablets. In several cases, victims' devices were wiped without authorization, erasing messages, photos, and other data that could have revealed traces of the intrusion.

"The recently identified KONNI campaign is particularly notable for cases in which Google Android–based smartphones and tablet PCs in South Korea were remotely reset, resulting in the unauthorized d

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