North Korean hackers are “using fake job offer emails to dupe crypto exchange employees,” warned security experts – and Pyongyang-aligned cyber-terrorists are causing “damage” by circulating “malware-ridden MS Word documents” south of the 38th Parallel.
Gina Kim, an IT security professional based in Seoul, South Korea, told Our,
“We have found similarities between these [recent cyberattacks] and previous Lazarus attacks. We are convinced that Lazarus is behind the latest cyberattacks because of these similarities.”
F-Secure claimed last month that Lazarus has this year launched a spate of spear-phishing attacks using platforms like LinkedIn, with bogus job offers to crypto exchange employees in over a dozen nations.
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