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This North Korean recruitment scam was so convincing it even fooled Google

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North Korea's Lazarus Group upgraded its fake job scam, Operation Dream Job, by exploiting a new Windows zero-day vulnerability, deploying an undocumented backdoor called Troy, and even slipping malicious job postings past Google's filters. The campaign targeted defense and aerospace firms across Europe and India.

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