SpectralBlur is a new macOS backdoor that shows similarities with North Korean hacking group’s KandyKorn malware. The post New ‘SpectralBlur’ macOS Backdoor Linked to North Korea appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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New ‘SpectralBlur’ macOS Backdoor Linked to North Korea
Published: 2024-01-05 13:14:01
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Author: Ionut Arghire
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Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
Published: 2024-09-17 11:02:34
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Author: Bruce Schneier
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🤖: "Phishing alert!"
Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, when a number of popular open source Python tools were maliciously duplicated with added malware. Now, though, there are also attacks involving “coding tests” that only exist to get the end user to install hidden malware on their system (cleverly hidden with Base64 encoding) that allows remote execution once present. The capacity for exploitation at that point is pretty much unlimited, due to the flexibility of Python and how it interacts with the underlying OS...
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