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North Korean social engineering of open-source maintainers

April 4, 2026Aakash Gupta

Aakash Gupta says North Korean intelligence created a fake company and befriended a JavaScript maintainer to compromise them, emphasizing that indiehackers are vulnerable through trust, not just code.

“North Korean intelligence agents built an entire fake company to compromise one JavaScript developer.”
“And it worked.”
“They befriended its maintainer.”
“built a branded Slack workspace with fake employee”
Aakash Gupta
securityopen-sourcesocial-engineering

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