North Korean cybercriminals have been using new malware to remotely control victims’ systems as part of a broader campaign targeting technical professionals through fake job offers, according to a Czech cybersecurity firm.

Following on from an investigation into a zero-day vulnerability reported in February, Avast highlighted the Lazarus Group’s use of the previously undocumented Kaolin remote access trojan (RAT) in a report on Thursday. 

Kaolin is capable of executing several standard functions for RATs, as well as performing additional tasks like changing the timestamp for when a selected file was last modified and loading