Infamous Apple Mac Hack that Won North Korean Spies $7 Million in Cryptocurrency

North Korea hackers are using fake software to breach cryptocurrency wallets of  MacOS users. 

The entity responsible for the hacks is the same group believed to have conducted the Sony Pictures system breach. Lazarus Group, as  US intelligence and cybersecurity firms, have come to identify the group as is sponsored by the  North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).

A Chainalysis report revealed how the hackers pose as legitimate Linkedin and Telegram profiles, only to execute clean phishing schemes targeting apple devices. 

It isn’t the first time that intelligence firms are linking the Lazarus Group with a cybercrime incident. Following the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, a Google researcher Neel Mehta posted two code samples. 

One from the Lazarus Contopee Cyber Weapon and another one from the WannaCry ransomware.

Additionally, another analysis during that year linked the North Korean team of hackers to the 2014 Sony Pictures hack and the $81 million Bangladesh…