Job Seekers are Being Targeted by North Korean Hackers Via Phony Interviews
Researchers, Recorded Future
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North Korean hackers are still using social engineering attempts to target software developers.
An underappreciated danger to the supply chain for IT software is PurpleBravo. Compromises can spread downstream to their clients because many targets are in the staff-augmentation and IT services sectors, which have sizable public clientele.
“For companies that outsource development, this campaign presents a serious software supply-chain risk, especially in areas where PurpleBravo focuses its fake hiring activities.” |
Developers employed in the "AI, cryptocurrency, financial services, IT services, marketing, and software development verticals in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and Central America" are being compromised by a North Korean organization known as "PurpleBravo" through ClickFix attacks and phishing schemes with a job theme.
In an effort to fool job searchers into accessing malicious GitHub repos as part of fraudulent coding interviews, the threat actor has been impersonating recruiters on LinkedIn.
Researchers
“It's probable that in several instances, job seekers ran malicious programs on company equipment, exposing the corporation, in addition to the individual target.”
Recorded Future
Even though the group's main goal may be cryptocurrency theft, many of the hacked companies provide IT services and software development. For businesses that depend on independent contractors or outsource their IT services, this poses a serious supply-chain risk.
“For enterprises to prepare, protect, and stop sensitive data from leaking to North Korean threat actors, the PurpleBravo supply-chain risk warrants equal attention to the North Korean IT worker employment threat, which has received a lot of media attention.”
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Note: To get a stress-free working environment, you can go for a specially designed tool, “PhishNext,” which provides specialized simulations of phishing attacks so that users can get used to such attacks and never become victims of such attacks. |
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