It appears North Korean hackers have revisited a tried-and-true scheme to attack Mac owners who work at cryptocurrency exchanges: creating a fake company and corresponding cryptocurrency trading app that actually infects users with malware. Researcher Patrick Wardle, creator of OS X security firm Objective-See, reported in a blog post late last week that malicious actors set up a website for a phony crypto firm called JMT Trading, with a link to a GitHub page where visitors could supposedly download a trading app. In reality, however, these users were downloading files laced with malware that was uncovered by researchers at MalwareHunterTeam on Oct. 11.
Source: SC Magazine