New research from Reversing Labs shows that the Lazarus Group is continuing its campaign of tempting targeting developers with malicious software packages on open-source repositories by posing as employees of the financial services firm Capital One.

Lazarus Group has been observed continuing its VMConnect campaign by targeting developers with new malicious software packages on open source repositories, according to ReversingLabs.

North Korean attackers pose as recruiters for financial firms to lure developers into executing trojanized Python projects on their machines as part of fake job interviews.

Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious Python packages that target software developers under the guise of coding assessments.

Attackers have added aggressive social engineering to their arsenal, along with a novel Windows-manipulating persistence mechanism that demands developer vigilance.