Security News > 2022 > August > North Korea Hackers Spotted Targeting Job Seekers with macOS Malware
The North Korea-backed Lazarus Group has been observed targeting job seekers with malware capable of executing on Apple Macs with Intel and M1 chipsets.
Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET linked it to a campaign dubbed "Operation In(ter)ception" that was first disclosed in June 2020 and involved using social engineering tactics to trick employees working in the aerospace and military sectors into opening decoy job offer documents.
The latest attack is no different in that a job description for the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform was used as a launchpad to drop a signed Mach-O executable.
"It drops three files: a decoy PDF document 'Coinbase online careers 2022 07.pdf', a bundle 'FinderFontsUpdater.app,' and a downloader 'safarifontagent.'".
It's worth noting the malware is cross-platform, as a Windows equivalent of the same PDF document was used to drop an.
EXE file named "Coinbase online careers 2022 07.exe" earlier this month, as revealed by Malwarebytes researcher Hossein Jazi.
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