North Korean Hackers Use Fake Coinbase Job Offers To Target Fintech Employees
For those unaware, Coinbase is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. The hacking group Lazurus, believed to be backed by the North Korean government, is well-known for conducting financially motivated attacks against banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, NFT marketplaces, and individual investors with significant holdings. For this particular campaign, the modus operandi of the hacking group is to approach victims through hiring platforms such as LinkedIn and Indeed and entice them with a job offer and hold a preliminary discussion as part of a social engineering attack....