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To spread macOS malware, a notorious North Korean hacking group used AI deepfakes to impersonate executives during a video call with their target: an unsuspecting employee.

Cybersecurity vendor Huntress reported the incident on Wednesday, and has linked the attack to "BlueNoroff," a unit of Lazarus, North Korea’s state-sponsored hacking group. The North Koreans targeted an employee at an unnamed "cryptocurrency foundation," Huntress wrote in a blog post.

To do so, the hackers reached out to the employee through the mobile chat app, Telegram. “The message requested time to speak to the employee, and the attacker sent a Calendly link to set up meeting time,” according to Huntress’s investigators. Read more 

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