{"id":27733,"date":"2020-08-26T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27733"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:50:04","slug":"study-lazarus-hackers-target-blockchain-professionals-on-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/study-lazarus-hackers-target-blockchain-professionals-on-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Lazarus hackers target blockchain professionals on LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Korea\u2013linked Lazarus group has targeted job seekers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space who use the LinkedIn service. <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.f-secure.com\/publications\/ti-report-lazarus-group-cryptocurrency-vertical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reports<\/a> from cybersecurity solutions provider F-Secure say this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Several specialists received job offers containing a malicious file. Researchers determined that the malware was created in 2019. Its code <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/7446efa798cfa7908e78e7fb2bf3ac57486be4d2edea8a798683c949d504dee6\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is available<\/a> on the popular cybersecurity resource VirusTotal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The primary objective of the virus was to gain access for the purpose of stealing cryptocurrencies,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>F-Secure noted that Lazarus operates in the interests of the North Korean government. Experts believe that the targets of their attacks will also include organisations outside the cryptocurrency industry.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-August the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/u-s-army-about-6000-hackers-are-targeting-north-korea\">stated<\/a> that 6,000 hackers are operating against North Korea. Some of them belong to the Lazarus group, whose tasks include creating &#8220;social chaos&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Kaspersky Lab experts noted that in 2020 Lazarus hackers intensified targeted attacks on Russian crypto-traders.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lazarus group, linked to North Korea, has targeted job seekers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space using LinkedIn, according to cybersecurity solutions provider F-Secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1125,1523],"class_list":["post-27733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-lazarus","tag-linkedin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27735,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27733\/revisions\/27735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}