North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware
North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware
20 February 2025
Freelance software developers are the target of an ongoing campaign that leverages job interview-themed lures to deliver cross-platform malware families known as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret.
The activity, linked to North Korea, has been codenamed DeceptiveDevelopment, which overlaps with clusters tracked under the names Contagious Interview (aka CL-STA-0240), DEV#POPPER, Famous Chollima,