North Korean Dream Job attacks hit Europe's UAV sector • The Register

North Korea's Lazarus Group has successfully compromised Europe's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sector with its Operation DreamJob campaign, which promises job seekers lucrative employment opportunities - but then delivers a malware-laced offer and a compromised computer.

Lazarus , Pyongyang's best-known cyberheist and espionage crew , is widely attributed to the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack in late 2014 and the WannaCry outbreak in 2017, although the group has been active since at least 2009.

Its DreamJob campaigns have been around since 2020 , and are characterized by their use of social engineering to lure job seekers with fake offers for high-profile positions - before tricking the victims into clicking on malicious links or documents. The targets are typically aerospace and defe