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Lazarus Group's 19-Day A/B Test: How North Korean APT Pivoted from Airdrops to Fake CVEs to Dream Jobs

KL3FT3Z on April 08, 2026

description: "Technical analysis of three consecutive Lazarus Group campaigns targeting the same GitHub users with different social engineering vec...
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GnomeMan4201 •

This looks like outer-loop automation ,lure generation, segmentation, and A/B testing paired with a human-governed inner loop for high-risk actions. The 19-day pivot suggests the Observe/Orient cycle is tightening, but burn rate and attribution pressure still limit full end-to-end autonomy. In other words, sensing and adaptation are scaling faster than execution can safely keep up.

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GnomeMan4201 • • Edited

feels less like persistence and more like steering.
If telemetry or observability can be influenced, you can feed the team a stable but false picture of the system and the developer’s OODA loop becomes the attack surface.
The AI part is what makes it nastier: bad instrumentation doesn’t just hide the attack, it can train the model toward the wrong fix.

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KL3FT3Z •

You're absolutely right! I love watching their evolution and getting the opportunity to use the techniques for practice phishing tests within RedTeam.

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KL3FT3Z •

its cool! Thanx! Very good job!