Lazarus is described as targeting Python developers through the VMConnect campaign by posing as recruiters and sending victims to fake GitHub coding-test projects. The lure commonly impersonates major U.S. banks such as Capital One and uses LinkedIn job outreach to make the assignment appear legitimate. Victims are told to run a Python password-manager project where malicious code hidden in the __init__.py files of pyperclip and pyrebase decodes a Base64-obfuscated module and contacts a C2 server for additional payload delivery. The campaign’s forced timing, including only minutes to set up, fix, and submit the task, is meant to make developers skip code review or sandboxing, and ReversingLabs evidence cited in the excerpt indicates the activity remained active into July 2024.