South Korea's National Police Agency reported that emails sent in December 2024 impersonating the release of a Defense Counterintelligence Command martial-law document were determined to be North Korean activity. Investigators said the broader campaign se…
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The Justice Department said Minh Phuong Ngoc Vong pleaded guilty to wire-fraud conspiracy for letting China-based conspirators use his identity, employment access, and employer-issued laptops to perform remote software-development work for U.S. companies.…
The source discusses cooperation patterns among state-backed intrusion groups and focuses on North Korean operators' use of Windows LNK shortcut malware for initial access. It highlights how LNK file structure, embedded environment artifacts, and repeated…
The FBI attributed the nearly $1.5 billion Bybit cryptocurrency theft to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899. The group is described as a Lazarus-linked, cryptocurrency-focused actor that target…
Slow Pisces, also known as Jade Sleet, TraderTraitor, or PUKCHONG, is described as a North Korean state-sponsored group targeting cryptocurrency developers through recruiter impersonation on LinkedIn. The campaign sent job descriptions and coding challeng…
The Medium analysis examines a Windows 64-bit sample named 875b0cbad25e04a255b13f86ba361b58453b6f3c5cc11aca2db573c656e64e24.exe that the author treats as potentially linked to Lazarus/APT38 based partly on sandbox labels and observed behavior. Static find…
AhnLab attributes Larva-24005 to activity associated with Kimsuky, describing intrusions against software, energy, and financial targets in South Korea and broader infrastructure spanning multiple countries. The report cites RDP exposure and BlueKeep CVE-…
Our analysis reveals that the #NorthKorean #Lazarus group is behind the attack, based on #blockchain analysis behavioral patterns of the stolen funds. On March 21, 2025,@ZOTH protocol’s wallet was compromised and the attacker withdrew over $8.5 million in…
CyberBlade Security expands on Cisco Talos research into MoonPeak, a XenoRAT adaptation, by mapping infrastructure tied to Kimsuky and broader DPRK cyber activity. The excerpt describes shared hosting patterns, reused codebases, response-hash pivots, and …
Bitso’s Quetzal team describes a highly targeted North Korean Chollima/Lazarus social-engineering attempt against fintech and crypto personnel. A fake recruiter using the name “Wilton Santos” asked the researcher to patch a DApp repository, but the appare…
Qi An Xin reports suspected Kimsuky, tracked internally as APT-Q-2, targeting Korean organizations in sectors including defense, education, energy, government, healthcare, and think tanks. The observed malware set includes a Go dropper, DLL backdoors, and…
Zoth's April 2025 incident report says attackers used social engineering against a service provider to gain access to the Zoth deployer wallet and perform an unauthorized contract upgrade against the ZeUSD platform. The malicious upgrade used upgradeToAnd…
A Konni-linked Windows shortcut sample named ECRM.M.M.hwp.lnk uses mshta.exe to build and run an obfuscated PowerShell command. The script searches for an LNK file of exactly 0x17cb bytes, falls back to the user's TEMP subdirectories if needed, skips the …