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What a nation state hack looks like

This is what it looks like when a nation state decides to hack someone. North Korea got into axios by impersonating a real company, with a fake Slack workspace and a fake Teams call, and convincing the lead maintainer to install a trojan.

That's a table stakes hack given the funding and resources they have. The more sophisticated ones look like the crypto exchange hacks and the Indian bank hack.

A LinkedIn post by Fred Lamming about North Korea hacking axios by catfishing its maintainer.