A North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as Lazarus is again trying to hack security researchers, this time with a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering application.
IDA Pro is an application that converts an executable into assembly language, allowing security researchers and programmers to analyze how a program works and discover potential bugs.
Security researchers commonly use IDA to analyze legitimate software for vulnerabilities and malware to determine what malicious behavior it performs.
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Source: Bleeping Computer