Hunting Lazarus Part VI: The Factory That Ate Its Workers
2026-04-29 • Red Asgard •
https://redasgard.com/blog/hunting-lazarus-part6-factory-that-ate-its-workers
RedAsgard found five Lazarus/Contagious Interview operator workstations inside the campaign's own victim database, showing that the credential-theft pipeline also consumed the people running it. The campaign targeted cryptocurrency, Web3, developer, and financial-sector workers through fake company personas, job-interview lures, and coding-test workflows that made victims run JavaScript first-stage code. The collection system harvested browser sessions, wallet material, files, GitHub and package-registry credentials, cloud keys, and source-repository tokens, while Pastebin dead drops provided resilient fallback communications. The self-infections exposed supervisor and persona-operator artifacts, provisioning and test systems, internal classifications, and a long-running operator infection, making the report valuable for understanding both DPRK developer-targeting tradecraft and operational security failure.