Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC

North Korea's Lazarus Group has successfully compromised Europe's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sector with its Operation DreamJob campaign, which promises job seekers lucrative employment opportunities - but then delivers a malware-laced offer and a compromised computer. Lazarus, Pyongyang's best-known cyberheist and …

[Blackjack]

Plaintext email for life.

[OhForF']

If i were to discuss future job prospects outside the current company I'd want to do that outside any system the current employer can monitor and i am not working in a sector considered sensitive like defense.

[david 12]

Lazarus, is widely attributed to the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack

I thought that the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack was attributed to Lazarus, but evidently I had that the wrong way around.

Learn something new every day.

[Mike007]

Presumably these attacks are targeted at more technical users?

I can kind of understand non-technical people falling for it, but the "download a PDF reader" trick working against a technical user, who should know you don't need to run some exe file to open a PDF?

Even if we are talking electronics/CAD type people, they presumably open PDF files all the time?