Appleworm
2017-04-01 • Symantec • Internet Security Threat Report vol. 22
Appleworm is a name Symantec first listed in its April 2017 Internet Security Threat Report as an alias for Lazarus Group among a set of profiled nation-state threat actors. Two years later, in September 2019, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions designation likewise listed Appleworm as one of many aliases used for Lazarus Group, describing it as a North Korea state-sponsored malicious cyber group based in Pyongyang, alongside separately designated North Korean-linked entities Andariel and Bluenoroff, also known as APT38. In February 2021, Symantec again referred to the actor as Lazarus, also known as Appleworm, while reporting on a US Department of Justice indictment charging three North Korean nationals with a string of financially motivated cyberattacks that stole approximately 1.3 billion dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.
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