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07/09/2021
Lazarus gang targets engineers with job offers using poisoned emails
The State of Security
Security researchers at AT&T Alien Labs report that a notorious hacking group has been targeting engineers working in the defence industry.
In recent months there have been a series of reports of malicious emails that use the disguise of a job offer to target defence contractors in the United States and Europe.
Attached to the emails are Word documents containing macros that plant malicious code onto a victim’s computer, and make changes to the targeted computer’s settings in an attempt to avoid detection.
According to security researchers, the attacks carry the hallmarks of being the work of the notorious Lazarus Group, a North Korean-linked hacking gang that has been blamed for the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures, and the theft of $81 million from the Bank of Bangladesh in 2016, amongst other attacks.
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