The Voice (Botswana)

Hackers offer fake jobs on linkedin as a way to deliver ‘more_eggs’ malware

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esentire, a leading cybersecur­ity solutions provider, is warning enterprise­s and individual­s that a hacking group is spearphish­ing business profession­als on Linkedin with fake job offers in an effort to infect them with a sophistica­ted backdoor Trojan.

Backdoor trojans give threat actors remote control over the victim’s computer, allowing them to send, receive, launch and delete files. esentire’s research team, the Threat Response Unit (TRU), discovered that hackers are spearphish­ing victims with a malicious zip file using the job position listed on the target’s Linkedin profile.

Source: maglazana.com

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