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Tue, September 2, 2025

Lazarus Group Expands Cross-Platform RATs Against DeFi

🔍 Researchers link a social engineering campaign to the North Korea–linked Lazarus Group that distributed three cross-platform RATs — PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE — against a decentralized finance (DeFi) organization. Fox-IT observed the actors impersonating an employee on Telegram and using fake Calendly/Picktime pages to arrange meetings and gain a foothold via a loader named PerfhLoader. The intrusion delivered multiple tools (screenshotter, keylogger, credential stealers, Mimikatz, proxy programs) and saw an operational progression from the primitive PondRAT to the in-memory ThemeForestRAT, culminating in the more advanced RemotePE for high-value access.

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