S2W attributes a May 2025 cryptocurrency-themed malware campaign to North Korea-backed Kimsuky, centered on a malicious Windows CHM help file named wallet.chm. Opening the CHM and triggering the embedded content leads through JavaScript, ActiveX shortcut …
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An exposed ownCloud instance at cloud.star.net.kp, resolving to 175.45.176.31, revealed user files and server logs from North Korean-hosted infrastructure. The accessible /data directory exposed files for each user and logs showing activity from RFC-1918 …
Kimsuky is linked to a phishing email impersonating Naver's takedown-request service, telling the recipient that a blog post had been suspended for an alleged rights violation. The lure appears to target users writing about cryptocurrency by pushing them …
North Korean threat groups are highlighted as persistent drivers of 2024 crypto theft, with the article attributing $1.3 billion in stolen funds to DPRK activity. The DPRK-relevant section focuses on private-key exploits enabled by weak wallet governance,…
ASEC observed Kimsuky phishing professors with paper-review lures that delivered password-protected HWP documents containing malicious OLE objects. When the victim opened the document and followed the embedded “More…” prompt, peice.bat copied staged files…
AhnLab’s May 2025 South Korea APT trend data identifies spear phishing as the dominant observed intrusion vector, with lures tied to tax reporting, privacy compliance, virtual assets, foreign exchange, and administrative submissions. The excerpt describes…
AhnLab’s May 2025 APT trend roundup highlights North Korean activity against Ukrainian government agencies and broader attempts to infiltrate organizations by posing as workers in cybersecurity and other industries. The Konni section describes February 20…
Aikido found the npm package web3-wrapper-ethers impersonating the legitimate ethers library while targeting Web3, blockchain, and cryptocurrency developers. The package copied ethers metadata and modified the Wallet constructor to exfiltrate private keys…
AhnLab's May 2025 domestic APT trend data shows spear phishing as the dominant intrusion route against South Korean targets, with LNK-based delivery taking the largest share. The observed lures used tax, privacy, virtual-asset, business-document, and unif…
ASEC links a Kimsuky campaign to phishing emails sent to professors under the guise of academic paper review requests, with password-protected HWP documents carrying malicious OLE objects. Opening the document creates staged files in %TEMP%, and a "more" …
The podcast excerpt presents Lazarus as an active North Korean threat actor with past activity ranging from the Sony Pictures attack to major cryptocurrency theft such as the Bybit incident. Its current focus in the provided text is infiltration campaigns…
Genians analyzed a March-April 2025 AppleSeed campaign attributed in the report to Kimsuky, a North Korea-linked state-sponsored group active against defense, military, cryptocurrency, vaccine, and North Korea-related activist targets. The operators used …
Genians analyzed a March-April 2025 AppleSeed campaign attributed in the source to Kimsuky, a North Korea-linked state-sponsored group targeting Korean Facebook, email, and Telegram users. The operators approached North Korea-related workers and activists…
Reaper/APT37 is described using a malicious LNK file named “National Intelligence and Counterintelligence Manuscript.lnk” against South Korea–focused North Korea watchers. The targeted audience includes human rights groups, journalists covering North Kore…
Suspected North Korean threat actors showed sustained interest in Validin threat intelligence data, especially infrastructure publicly attributed to them and reporting that exposed their operations. The activity was attributed in the talk to a North Korea…