A new Lazarus campaign considered part of "Operation DreamJob" has been discovered targeting Linux users with malware for the first time.
  • Retiring@lemmy.ml
    732·
    10 months ago

    If you run random .pdf.something-files pm‘d to you on LinkedIn you probably shouldn’t use a computer anyway, no matter if it runs Linux or Windows…

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      32·
      10 months ago

      Lazarus’ Operation DreamJob, also known as Nukesped, is an ongoing operation targeting people who work in software or DeFi platforms with fake job offers on LinkedIn or other social media and communication platforms.

      Looks like they’re going after desperate job seeking crypto bros. Even if it’s not terribly effective, it’s a spray and pray, so they probably got some people.

      • brick@lemm.ee
        19·
        10 months ago

        Seems to me like they are targeting people who likely have access to assets that can be easily stolen and hard to track.

    • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
      23·
      10 months ago

      The problem is, using a computer is pretty much essential to function in this world, I actually know more people who would run any file sent to them without a second thought because they wouldn’t know better, but they still need to use a computer.

      I think a better solution is to give better training to people about computer hygiene at the workplace.

      • ffhein@lemmy.world
        9·
        10 months ago

        I work for a large IT company so we’ve had numerous such training courses, but then they use third party services for time reporting, manager evaluation, cloud services, personal finance advice, etc. so I regularly get emails with links to domains that I’ve never heard about that I’m supposed to trust…

        • Quereller@lemmy.one
          7·
          10 months ago

          I work in a big international company. We regularly have phishing (email) awareness training. But they outsource about everything and regularly change the providers. So we often get totally legit emails from just some random companies and are supposed to visit/ login to some previously unknown domains.

        • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
          5·
          10 months ago

          That’s what happens when executives don’t listen to IT…

          The company I currently work for host everything at the building they own. The CEO doesn’t understand much about IT, but his attitude is “I trust your integrity and your expertise, so I’ll approve anything you ask me within reason if it will improve security and reliability.”

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        71·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, i teached my dad (not interested in IT at all) what weird urls in E-Mails look like and he has less spam now. Still 500 unread mails in inbox though.

  • krimson@feddit.nl
    32·
    10 months ago

    Joke’s on them, I don’t use bash.

    Seriously though, Linux will probably get targeted more frequently now that it is becoming more popular as a desktop OS.

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      301·
      10 months ago

      It never occurred to me before reading this comment that there actually is a use case for the execute permission. To me it was always just this annoying thing I have to do whenever I download an executable which I didn’t have to do on Windows.

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
        35·
        10 months ago

        Hm, maybe there should be an option to always disable the executable permission when extracting

        • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          That’s perhaps possible, but likely would have to be implemented in each achieving tools individually.

            • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              There’s a bunch of zip implementations(Info-Zip, Gzip, 7-Zip, PKZip, Pigz, etc.), so perhaps an older version of one of the implementations didn’t support preserving the Linux executable permission in the past.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    261·
    10 months ago

    how someone working on software and tech opens a file called “HSBC job offer.pdf.zip” is beyond me…

  • BlanK0@lemmy.ml
    121·
    10 months ago

    Still the exploit is easier to avoid compared to windows viruses and stuff. Even with the linux popularity increasing there is already out there good solutions to prevent this kinda stuff like have SELinux installed, use firejail to run suspicious files, use proxies to visit weird sites (you can use proxychains + tor, a bit overkill but works if you don’t have a local proxy), etc.

    Not to mention that one of the attack vectors of this exploit requires using a systemd feature which is the sysnetd which isnt going to work on other init systems. Reason why a lot of times minimalism can be superior to just having all the features + unnecessary ones out of the box.