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North Korean social engineering targeting developers

April 5, 2026Austen Allred, Aakash Gupta, ℏεsam

Austen Allred and Aakash Gupta describe North Korean operators using fake companies and relationship-building to compromise developers, while ℏεsam alleges a VSCode/Cursor-linked exploit tied to a $285M theft.

The entire Axios meltdown was social engineering to get a dev to join a fake Microsoft Teams call
North Korean intelligence agents built an entire fake company to compromise one JavaScript developer. And it worked.
🚨A group of North Korean hackers possibly exploited a VSCode/Cursor vulnerability to steal $285M.
Austen Allred
Aakash Gupta
ℏεsam
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