Operation Dangerous Password: hijacked LinkedIn account of an employee of a Japanese crypto currency exchanger

Date (as written): (not dated)
Year: undated
Country: Japan
Actors (as written): Lazarus attack group (operation identified in Japan and associated with Lazarus)
Actor pages: Lazarus attack group
Tags (as written): crypto; social engineering; account hijack

Source entries (1)

JPCERT/CC Eyes blog: Beware of Contacts through LinkedIn

Operation Dangerous Password: hijacked LinkedIn account of an employee of a Japanese crypto currency exchanger · (not dated)

The attackers exploited a large number of LinkedIn accounts, and in one of the cases, the account of an employee of a crypto currency exchanger in Japan was hijacked, and the attacker contacted financial institutions and developers both in Japan and overseas through the account.

https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2025/01/initial_attack_vector.html

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