Security News > 2024 > September > North Korean Threat Actors Deploy COVERTCATCH Malware via LinkedIn Job Scams
2024-09-07 07:28
Threat actors affiliated with North Korea have been observed leveraging LinkedIn as a way to target developers as part of a fake job recruiting operation. These attacks employ coding tests as a common initial infection vector, Google-owned Mandiant said in a new report about threats faced by the Web3 sector. "After an initial chat conversation, the attacker sent a ZIP file that contained
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