North Korea’s Malicious Job Offers: How Fake Jobs Are Stealing Your Crypto
Famous Chollima, a North Korea-aligned hacking group, is using fake job offers to deploy malware and steal cryptocurrency. Their new, unified malware, merging BeaverTail and OtterCookie, now offers data theft upgrades like keylogging and screenshotting. As if job hunting wasn’t hard enough without being hacked!
Hot Take:
Oh, North Korea, you’ve done it again! Famous Chollima is back on their job market shenanigans, and this time they’re bringing some friends—BeaverTail and OtterCookie—to the party. If your dream job sounds too good to be true, it probably comes with a side of malware. So, unless you want your crypto to mysteriously disappear faster than you can say “blockchain,” it might be time to double-check those job offers!
Key Points:
- Famous Chollima is using fake job offers to deploy malware.
- BeaverTail and OtterCookie malware are merging functionalities.
- The malware evolution now includes keylogging and screenshotting capabilities.
- The campaign targets cryptocurrency browser extensions and wallets.
- JavaScript is the new weapon of choice for these attacks.
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