#North Korea
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North Korean Job-Interview Scam Hides Malware Inside Flag Images
Fake coding tests planted a four-stage stealer on developers' machines, with the payload smuggled inside SVG picture files.
North Korean hackers flood open-source repositories with 108 booby-trapped packages
The Contagious Interview crew is back, seeding npm, Packagist, Go and Chrome with malware aimed at developers.
Fake Rollup Helper Packages on npm Traced to North Korean Hackers
Two look-alike JavaScript packages copied a popular developer tool line-for-line, then quietly opened a back door onto the machines of anyone who installed them.
North Korean Malware Tells AI Analyzers to Look Away
A macOS sample attributed to Pyongyang-linked actors contains prompts designed to make LLM-assisted security tools abandon their analysis. Defenders are starting to notice the pattern.
Contagious Interview Pivots to Dev-Review Lures in Two Fresh Campaigns
The North Korea-linked cluster is back with phishing pretexts aimed at developers: recruiter pitches and code-review requests that drop malware on engineers' workstations.