Crypto folks (hopefully) already know that Lazarus is one of the most prevalent threat actors targeting this industry
2024-07-09 • Tay •
The excerpt describes a DPRK TraderTraitor social-engineering operation against cryptocurrency-sector employees using fake professional personas and GitHub-based job or skills-test lures. In the shared case, the same LinkedIn persona approached two technical employees at the same company, added one target to a private GitHub repository, and asked them to build code, after which the device was compromised. The attacker continued normal conversation after compromise, including sending a small USDT payment, while apparently checking whether the target still had company system access. The account presents this as an initial-access pattern for Lazarus-linked cryptocurrency thefts in which individual device compromise can precede cloud or company access attempts and delayed theft activity.