Recently, a BitMEX employee was contacted through LinkedIn for a potential ‘NFT Marketplace’ web3 project collaboration. The goal was to make the victim run the project’s code, which includes malicious code, on their computer.
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BitMEX thwarts supposed Lazarus attack, discovers group's IP addresses and 'significant lapses' in security
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The Lazarus Group targeted a BitMEX employee in May 2025 through LinkedIn, using a fake NFT project as a lure to deliver malicious code.
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