North Korean cybercriminals are targeting jobs listed on LinkedIn and Indeed to plagiarize resumes and other people’s profiles to land remote work at crypto firms, according to a Bloomberg report citing security researchers at Mandiant.
The objective is to access these firms’ internal operations and gather intelligence about upcoming trends, including those related to the Ethereum network development, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and potential security lapses.
Another platform the suspected hackers were spotted at is cited as the popular coding site GitHub, where developers publicly discuss on-goings in the industry, according to Mandiant.
This information is allegedly helping North Korean hackers to launder cryptocurrencies that can later be used by the Pyongyang regime to evade Western sanctions.
“It comes down to insider threats,” Joe Dobson, a principal analyst at Mandiant, told Bloomberg. “If someone gets hired onto a crypto project, and they become a core developer, that allows...
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