Nowadays, we can see Crypto-related hack everywhere. Recently, I was reading news where it was written that North Korea Uses fake Cryptocurrency Companies to break into macOS.
The Lazarus Group, considered by the U.S. government and numerous cybersecurity companies to be sponsored by North Korea, are trying to get into Macs via some fake cryptocurrency software created by a front company.
How it worked?According to Apple Mac security specialist and principal security researcher at Jamf Patrick Wardle: The hackers created a fake company that completely resembles the official website. In this latest case, the North Koreans set up the front company, JMT Trading.
They then wrote an open-source cryptocurrency trading app and put it up on the code-sharing site GitHub. Hidden within that code, though, was malware that, when downloaded onto a target Apple PC, would give the hacker the ability to do anything they wanted on the Mac.
The hackers may then go a step further by contacting administrators and users of cryptocurrency exchanges, asking them to test and review their new app, Wardle told Forbes. If they get lucky, they get a bit of leverage in an official cryptocurrency vendor and start infecting targets.
North Korea has repeatedly tried to find a way into cryptocurrency coffers, with a good degree of success. In August,
reports indicated it had made as much as $2 billion by hacking into a mix of traditional banks and cryptocurrency companies. Some of that money appears to be going into helping the state develop weapons of mass destruction.
>> After reading this article, I am feeling that we never know when our PC/laptops will get hacked? How can we protect our laptops from that? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/10/14/apple-mac-hack-warning-north-korea-uses-fake-cryptocurrency-companies-to-break-into-macos/#1a614e9d6cc2