Financially-motivated hacker group BlueNoroff compromised a company employee in the United Arab Emirates beginning in September 2022

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Financially-motivated hacker group BlueNoroff compromised an employee in the sales department of a home financing company with likely Japan connections in the United Arab Emirates beginning on 2 September 2022, according to IT security company Kaspersky. BlueNoroff is known to be a subgroup of the notorious state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus. What stands out in this cyber incident is the circumvention of the Mark-of-the-Web flag by using different file types. Kaspersky claims with low confidence that the hacker group is interested in Japanese-related targets due to the Japanese spoofing websites and file names.