Gen Digital profiles Lazarus Group, also known as Hidden Cobra, as a North Korea-linked actor that has shifted from espionage and sabotage toward financially motivated operations against banks, cryptocurrency targets, and technology workers. The source says Lazarus uses fake job opportunities against tech and crypto-sector individuals, including freelance developers working on NFT and crypto-wallet projects. It describes distribution of malicious JavaScript through platforms such as freelancer.com, trojanized project repositories, GitHub, and Google Cloud services, with attackers posing as employers or interviewers. The report frames the activity as a risk to both individual developers and crypto companies because recruitment lures can lead to asset theft, insider access, and follow-on espionage.