Targeting of American news media and IT companies
Date of report
  • March 2022
Affiliations
The Lazarus Group used a Google Chrome zero-day to target employees at American news media and IT companies. The Lazarus Group used phishing emails impersonating recruiters at Disney, Google, and Oracle with fake job opportunities, which included malicious links to spoofed Indeed and ZipRecruiter websites. An exploit kit hidden within the websites fingerprinted the target system and collected available client information. 
Suspected victims
  • Over 250 individuals working for 10 different news media, domain registrars, web hosting providers, and software vendors
Suspected state sponsor
  • Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)
Type of incident
  • Espionage
Target category
  • Private sector
  • Civil society
Victim government reaction
  • Unknown