Contagious Interview: 30,000 devices infected by a fake job interview

Reported by Security Affairs (Pierluigi Paganini)

Summary by Cyber Security News22 Sep 2026, 08:44 CEST

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North Korea-linked WaterPlum runs the Contagious Interview campaign, infecting over 30,000 devices using a fake job interview. On September 18, Japan’s National Police Agency, the FBI, the US Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center, and intelligence agencies from Australia and Germany published a joint advisory about a group called WaterPlum, better known as Contagious Interview. The name says it all.

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