Contagious Interview: DPRK Threat Actors Lure Tech Industry Job Seekers to Install New Variants of BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret Malware

Date (as written): 2024-10-09T03:00:54
Year: 2024

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Hackmageddon cyber attacks timelines (Paolo Passeri)

Multiple organizations · 09/10/2024

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discover a new variant of the CL-STA-240 Contagious Interview campaign where threat actors associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) pose as fake recruiters in an effort to get victims to download the BeaverTail malware and the InvisibleFerret backdoor. [Date Occurred: Since July 2024; Date Discovered: Since July 2024]

https://www.hackmageddon.com/2025/01/07/1-15-october-2024-cyber-attacks-timeline/

https://therecord.media/updated-malware-strains-north-korea

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42

Contagious Interview: DPRK Threat Actors Lure Tech Industry Job Seekers to Install New Variants of BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret Malware · 2024-10-09T03:00:54

Discover how North Korean attackers, posing as recruiters, used an updated downloader and backdoor in a campaign targeting tech job seekers.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/north-korean-threat-actors-lure-tech-job-seekers-as-fake-recruiters/

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