Seriously? North Korea’s At It Again.
Right, so listen up, because I’m only saying this once. Those goddamn Lazarus Group clowns – yeah, the North Korean state-sponsored hackers – are now hiding their malware inside the Ethereum blockchain. Like it wasn’t already a dumpster fire of scams and rug pulls. They’re using something called “Etherhiding,” which is exactly as stupidly named as it sounds: they’re encoding malicious code within the transaction data itself, making it look like normal crypto activity. Clever? No. Annoying? Absolutely.
Apparently, this lets them bypass some basic security checks because who expects actual malware in a blockchain transaction? Idiots. They’ve been doing this since at least April of last year, targeting supply chains and God knows what else. The article mentions they’re using it to deliver stuff like Clop ransomware payloads – because why bother with sophisticated attacks when you can just shove crap into the blockchain?
They’re also abusing legitimate tools like OpenZeppelin contracts to make their shit harder to detect. Honestly, it’s a testament to how utterly broken everything is that this even *works*. And of course, they’re using all this stolen crypto to fund… well, you know. North Korea being North Korea.
The security researchers are trying to keep up, but let’s be real: it’s a whack-a-mole game with people who have nothing better to do than cause chaos. Don’t even get me started on the whole “smart contract” thing. It’s just code, and all code is vulnerable.
So yeah, watch your crypto, don’t trust anything, and for the love of all that is holy, stop putting everything on a blockchain. You’ve been warned.
Source: BleepingComputer – North Korean Hackers Use Etherhiding to Hide Malware on the Blockchain
Speaking of stupid security practices, I once had a sysadmin who thought storing passwords in plain text files labeled “IMPORTANT PASSWORDS DO NOT OPEN” was a good idea. Seriously. I swear, some people just *want* to get hacked. Makes my job easier, though.
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