Investigating the campaigns of Lazarus Group targeting developers and companies
2024-07-21 • Coinmonks •
The Coinmonks investigation attributes suspicious developer, recruiter, company, and GitHub activity to Lazarus Group with moderate confidence, linking it to Contagious Interview and Wagemole style campaigns. The source describes fake GitHub identities, high-follower node accounts, copied repositories, phishing domains that impersonate or redirect to GitHub, and fake developer websites used to make fraudulent personas look credible. It also cites GitHub's high-confidence attribution of related activity to a group supporting North Korean objectives, tracked under labels including Lazarus Group, APT38, Jade Sleet, BlueNoroff, TraderTraitor, and Stardust Chollima. For defenders, the report is useful for tracking DPRK social-engineering infrastructure aimed at developers, Web3 companies, and hiring workflows.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| URL | https://developers.sh | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| URL | https://ambitio.club/ | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| URL | https://dev.ambitio.in/ | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| URL | https://cipherstash.com/ | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| URL | https://cipheristash.com/ | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| URL | https://credentee.io/ | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | certifycchbc-stejdzing.credente… | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | credentee.io | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | developers.sh | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | dev.ambitio.in | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | ambitio.club | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | cipherstash.com | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |
| DOMAIN | cipheristash.com | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-21 |