Vercel

The face was changed, yet the hand was known. Executive Summary A threat actor impersonating DLabs Hungary conducted a targeted recruitment campaign against a developer, using a purported CTO/team lead opportunity to deliver a malicious GitHub repository. The legitimate DLabs Hungary company is not assessed to be involved in this activity; the name was used as social-engineering cover by the threat actor. The repository was shared during a live interview call, with access granted long enough for the target to clone it. The repository contained VS Code workspace tasks configured with runOn: folderOpen, meaning the tasks could run when the folder was opened in a trusted workspace and automatic task execution was allowed. ...

“This was not a new work, but an old hand returning by familiar paths.” Executive Summary A threat actor operating a LinkedIn recruiter persona, assessed with low-to-medium confidence as DPRK-linked and consistent with Contagious Interview / TraderTraitor-style activity, targeted developers through a multi-stage social engineering lure. The initial LinkedIn message delivered a Google Drive-hosted project overview / job description PDF and a Calendly scheduling link. The malicious GitHub repository, Dravion-Core hosted under the organisation Intraverse-Dev-Tech-Hub, was subsequently shared during the follow-on call rather than in the initial message. The repository deploys two independent execution routes that deliver the same payload via separate C2 infrastructure, in a structure near-identical to TP-2026-004 (BetPoker). ...

“The table is set like an altar, and whoso sits there is counted among the damned.” Executive Summary A threat actor operating under the GitHub organisation LimitBreakOrgs used a repository named bet_ver_1, publicly described as “BetPoker”, as a malicious Web3 gaming assessment project. The organisation name appears designed to resemble limitbreakinc, the legitimate GitHub organisation associated with Limit Break Inc., a Web3 gaming company. The preserved repository presents as a Web3 poker and sports betting platform and contains two independent execution routes: one through a VS Code folder-open task, and one through backend startup via npm start. ...

“He came as a messenger with gifts, and the birds grew fat.” Executive Summary A threat actor operating a fake recruiter persona on LinkedIn approached developers with a CTO-level opportunity at a fabricated Japanese e-commerce company. After establishing credibility through a polished project brief, the actor shared a GitHub repository named Japanese-Royal as part of a technical interview, directing the target to review and run the codebase. The repository contained a multi-stage implant reachable through several routine developer actions, including VS Code folder-open tasks, npm lifecycle hooks, normal startup scripts, and direct server execution. ...