Cybersecurity firm Silent Push have confirmed recently that North Korean IT workers continue to utilize Astrill VPN services to hide their true IP addresses when seeking employment with international companies. This finding, originally reported by Google’s Mandiant in September 2024,…
Freelance software developers are the target of an ongoing campaign that leverages job interview-themed lures to deliver cross-platform malware families known as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret.
The activity, linked to North Korea, has been codenamed DeceptiveDevelopment, which overlaps with clusters tracked under the names Contagious Interview (aka CL-STA-0240), DEV#POPPER, Famous Chollima,
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been observed using a new tactic that involves deceiving targets into running PowerShell as an administrator and then instructing them to paste and run malicious code provided by them.
"To execute this tactic, the threat actor masquerades as a South Korean government official and over time builds rapport with a target before sending a
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new tactic employed by the North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Emerald Sleet, also known as Kimsuky or VELVET CHOLLIMA. The group is leveraging social engineering techniques to trick victims into running PowerShell commands as…
