{"id":665254,"date":"2025-04-25T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/north-korean-hackers-set-up-3-shell-companies-to-scam-crypto-devs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:47:09","slug":"north-korean-hackers-set-up-3-shell-companies-to-scam-crypto-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/north-korean-hackers-set-up-3-shell-companies-to-scam-crypto-devs\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers set up 3 shell companies to scam crypto devs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silent Push senior threat analyst Zach Edwards says the FBI has since shut down at least one of the companies.<\/p>\n

A subgroup of the North Korea-linked hacker organization Lazarus set up three shell companies, two in the US, to deliver malware to unsuspecting users.<\/p>\n

The three sham crypto consulting firms \u2014 BlockNovas, Angeloper Agency and SoftGlide \u2014 are being used by the North Korean hacker group Contagious Interview to distribute malware through fake job interviews, Silent Push Threat Analysts said<\/a> in an April 24 report.<\/p>\n

Silent Push senior threat analyst Zach Edwards said<\/a> in an April 24 statement to X that two shell companies are registered as legitimate businesses in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Silent Push senior threat analyst Zach Edwards says the FBI has since shut down at least one of the companies. A subgroup of the North Korea-linked hacker organization Lazarus set up three shell companies, two in the US, to deliver malware to unsuspecting users. The three sham crypto consulting firms \u2014 BlockNovas, Angeloper Agency and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-02\/0194f925-b6ea-7f5b-8773-8f9546545e72","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,74863,117,70375,70944,27926],"class_list":["post-665254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-business","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hackers","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}