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The Lazarus group is on the hunt for cryptocurrency once more and has now launched a targeted attack against a crypto organization by exploiting the human element of the corporate chain.
On Tuesday, cybersecurity researchers from F-Secure said the cryptocurrency organization is one of the latest victims in a global campaign which has targeted businesses in at least 14 countries including the UK and US.
According to F-Secure, the latest Lazarus attack was tracked through a LinkedIn job advert. The human target, a system administrator, received a phishing document in their personal LinkedIn account that related to a blockchain technology company seeking a new sysadmin with the employee's skill set.
The phishing email is similar to Lazarus samples already made available on VirusTotal, including the same names, authors, and word count elements.
As is the case with many phishing documents, you need to entice a victim to enable macros that hide malicious code for them to be effective. In this case, the Microsoft Word document claimed to be protected under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and so, the document's content could only be shown if macros were enabled.
Full report by F-Secure (PDF): https://labs.f-secure.com/assets/BlogFiles/f-secureLABS-tlp-white-lazarus-threat-intel-report2.pdf