North Korean APT Group Created 3 Front Companies to Spread Malware to Crypto Job Applicants

Today, Silent Push released that its threat analysts have uncovered three cryptocurrency companies that are actually fronts for the North Korean APT group Contagious Interview: BlockNovas LLC, Angeloper Agency, and SoftGlide LLC.

Silent Push’s malware analysts confirmed that three strains, BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie, are being used to spread malware via “interview malware lures” to unsuspecting cryptocurrency job applicants.

The threat actor heavily uses AI-generated images to create profiles of “employees” for the three front crypto companies. As part of the crypto attacks, the threat actors are heavily using Github, job listing, and freelancer websites.

This is now live at https://www.silentpush.com/blog/contagious-interview-front-companies/

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