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Hackers aren’t just nerds rapidly typing away in dimly lit rooms, as seen in the movies. More and more threats are coming from what are known as “state-level hackers,” who are teams of people — either employed directly or contracted by a government — who attack other governments, corporations, and agencies. Not long ago, security researchers spotted North Korean hackers doing just that with a recently patched Windows vulnerability. Gen Digital, a consortium of researchers from security software vendors like Norton, Avast, Avira, and AVG, says it spotted North Korean state-level hackers using a…