Gotta fly: Lazarus targets the UAV sector

2025-10-23 ESET

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/gotta-fly-lazarus-targets-uav-sector/

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ESET attributes a new wave of Operation DreamJob activity to North Korea-aligned Lazarus with high confidence, citing fake job-offer social engineering, trojanized open-source projects, DLL side-loading, and the ScoringMathTea RAT. The observed intrusions targeted three European defense-sector companies, including organizations involved in aircraft components, metal engineering, and UAV-related technology. Victims were lured with a decoy job description and a trojanized PDF reader, after which droppers using the internal name DroneEXEHijackingLoader.dll led to ScoringMathTea deployment through compromised C2 servers. The campaign matters because ESET connects the targeting to possible collection of proprietary UAV know-how as North Korea expands its drone program and gains wartime exposure through Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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IPv4 104.21.80.1 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 152.42.239.211 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 185.148.129.24 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 95.217.119.214 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 45.148.29.122 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 193.39.187.165 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 70.32.24.131 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 66.29.144.75 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 108.181.92.71 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 75.102.23.3 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 77.55.252.111 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 172.67.193.139 2025-10-23 2025-10-23
IPv4 104.247.162.67 2025-10-23 2025-10-23

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