I used to sit in meetings where clients, often who were in marketing or a creative activity, who happily tell me “Macs don’t get viruses”. Well that was in the days when the handful of creatives using Macs were not viable targets to the hackers.
Roll forward to today where Macs are main stream, and the threat actors realise that someone who will drop £2000 on a laptop probably has some information worth stealing, such as bank details or crypto.
The Lazarus threat group from North Korea, are advertising fake jobs, to infect people working in the creative end of crypto currencies with malware to steal cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
Lazarus hackers drop macOS malware via Crypto.com job offers (bleepingcomputer.com)
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
