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Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto

ID: 4e4b850b-48c3-563b-ad76-9f412d34e72f

STIX ID: report--4e4b850b-48c3-563b-ad76-9f412d34e72f

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-06-08

Date Updated: 2026-06-09

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Proofpoint researchers uncovered UNK_DeadDrop, a likely North Korea-linked recruitment-themed phishing campaign that sent over 250 emails to nearly 100 organizations, luring developers to attacker-controlled GitHub repositories which trigger preconfigured tasks to deploy a malicious VS Code extension and platform-specific loaders; the campaign delivers Overlord-based RATs on macOS/Linux and a Node.js/Electron-based stealer on Windows to exfiltrate browser credentials, keychain/keyring data, and cryptocurrency wallet files.

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