North Korea Is Recycling Mac Malware. That's Not the Worst Part

Published: March 5, 2020, 11:20 a.m.

For years, North Korea's Lazarus Group hackers have plundered and pillaged the global internet, scamming and infecting digital devices around the world for espionage, profit, and sabotage. One of their weapons of choice: a so-called loader that allows them to clandestinely run a diverse array of malware on targeted Macs with hardly a trace. But Lazarus didn't create the loader on its own. The group seems to have found it laying around online, and repurposed it to elevate their attacks.