North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns

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Feds warn of 'highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns'

The FBI has warned that North Korean operatives are plotting"complex and elaborate" social engineering attacks against employees of decentralized finance organizations, as part of ongoing efforts to steal cryptocurrency.connected to cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, and conducted other reconnaissance work, we're told.

The scammers aren't afraid to play a long game."If successful in establishing bidirectional contact, the initial actor, or another member of the actor's team, may spend considerable time engaging with the victim to increase the sense of legitimacy and engender familiarity and trust," according to the FBI.

Requests to execute code or download applications on company-owned devices or other devices with access to a company's internal network. Employment offers from prominent cryptocurrency or technology firms that are unexpected or involve unrealistically high compensation without negotiation.

 

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