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Fake employers luring software developers to install malware from GitHub through job interviews

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Actors (as written)
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea actors
Actor pages
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea actors
Tags (as written)
social engineering; malware

Source entries (1)

UN Panel of Experts S/2024/215

Fake employers luring software developers to install malware from GitHub through job interviews
Para 139: “In another report a campaign was discovered in which Democratic People’s Republic of Korea actors posed as employers to lure software developers, many linked to the cryptocurrency industry, into installing malware hosted on a GitHub repository through a job interview process (see figure XXIV and para. 132).” (figure XXIV source: Palo Alto Unit 42, “two campaigns by north korea bad actors target job hunters”)
https://undocs.org/S/2024/215

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