Microsoft Uncovers New Malicious Campaign Targeting Developers
This campaign is an offshoot of the more familiar and pervasive fake job interview and phony tech worker scams that have been coming from North Korea for several years.
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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
This campaign is an offshoot of the more familiar and pervasive fake job interview and phony tech worker scams that have been coming from North Korea for several years.
It’s a light news week, but we have some fun content for you! This week, we talk about our latest hacker movie episode–STAR WARS–which is up on the site and all of our feeds now (0:25), then we dig into a nasty hard-coded. credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines that Chinese threat actors are exploiting […]
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This week was a cornucopia of zero days. We talk about the six (!) actively exploited vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched this week in its February update (2:46), then we discuss the one that Apple fixed in iOS 26.3, a vulnerability that has been used in what the company calls an “extremely sophisticated attack” against a few individuals (7:24). […]
That vulnerability also was patched in macOS, but the active exploitation that Apple disclosed was against iOS only.
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