Freelance software engineers are the focus of a continuous initiative that utilizes job interview-related bait to distribute cross-platform malware variants referred to as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret.
This operation, associated with North Korea, has been designated DeceptiveDevelopment, which intersects with groups monitored under the titles Contagious Interview (also known as CL-STA-0240), DEV#POPPER, and Famous Chollima.