North Korea-based infamous Lazarus hacking group is again in motion, focusing on Apple Mac customers with faux job emails that include malicious recordsdata.

Researchers at cyber-security agency ESET posted a screenshot on Twitter that confirmed faux job listings from main crypto trade Coinbase by Lazarus, well-known for spreading the WannaCry ransomware globally in 2017.

The faux job itemizing was for an engineering supervisor, product safety, at Coinbase.

“A signed Mac executable disguised as a job description for Coinbase was uploaded to VirusTotal from Brazil. This is an occasion of Operation by Lazarus for Mac,” the ESET researchers posted in a tweet.

The faux job emails have an attachment containing malicious recordsdata that may compromise each Intel and Apple chip-powered Mac computer systems.

“Malware is compiled for each Intel and Apple Silicon. It drops three recordsdata: a decoy PDF doc, a bundle and a downloader,” warned researchers.

The Mac malware marketing campaign is new and never a part of earlier Lazarus campaigns.

This time, “the bundle is signed July 21 (based on the timestamp) utilizing a certificates issued in February 2022 to a developer named Shankey Nohria. The software will not be notarised and Apple has revoked the certificates on August 12,” the researchers famous.

Last month, cyber-security researchers linked Lazarus with stealing $100 million value digital tokens from Harmony, the crypto startup behind Horizon Blockchain Bridge.

The Lazarus Group has perpetrated a number of massive cryptocurrency thefts totalling over $2 billion, and has just lately turned its consideration to Decentralised Finance (DeFi) providers equivalent to cross-chain bridges, based on London-based blockchain evaluation supplier Elliptic.

The identical group is believed to be behind the $540 million hack of Ronin Bridge.

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