December 2025 APT Group Trends
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December 2025 APT Group Trends
Key APT Group Trends by Region
1) North Korea
North Korean state‑sponsored threat groups have increasingly relied on fake IT employment schemes, actively exploiting legitimate hiring platforms and fabricated identities to infiltrate corporate environments. These actors frequently take advantage of remote‑work infrastructures to obtain elevated access and conduct long‑term social engineering operations aimed at gaining access to internal systems. Some groups continue to employ loader techniques such as DLL hijacking, while accelerating modifications to their malware delivery methods to evade detection. Overall, recent attacks show a clear evolution toward hybrid intrusion models that simultaneously exploit personnel recruitment vectors and software vulnerabilities.
Famous Chollima
One such case involves the Famous Chollima organization, which used fraudulent remote‑work job postings to infiltrate U.S. and Western companies. Their goal was to obtain internal system access and ultimately secure financial gains through identity theft and unauthorized remote‑desktop control.
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Key APT Group Trends by Region
1) North Korea
North Korean state‑sponsored threat groups have increasingly relied on fake IT employment schemes, actively exploiting legitimate hiring platforms and fabricated identities to infiltrate corporate environments. These actors frequently take advantage of remote‑work infrastructures to obtain elevated access and conduct long‑term social engineering operations aimed at gaining access to internal systems. Some groups continue to employ loader techniques such as DLL hijacking, while accelerating modifications to their malware delivery methods to evade detection. Overall, recent attacks show a clear evolution toward hybrid intrusion models that simultaneously exploit personnel recruitment vectors and software vulnerabilities.
Famous Chollima
One such case involves the Famous Chollima organization, which used fraudulent remote‑work job postings to infiltrate U.S. and Western companies. Their goal was to obtain internal system access and ultimately secure financial gains through identity theft and unauthorized remote‑desktop control.
| Case 1. | |
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Time |
· Unknown |
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Targets …
IoC
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/12/11/imposter-for-hire-how-fake-people-can-gain-very-real-access/
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzUyMjk4NzExMA==&mid=2247507693&idx=1&sn=e73e1cca5af2ee80c3037daa1dbd2ab1&poc_token=HGokPGmjYq2xcJOaDd5WY4hY5Za-wN0Xy1iNhqJ7
https://any.run/cybersecurity-blog/lazarus-group-it-workers-investigation/
e73e1cca5af2ee80c3037daa1dbd2ab1
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzUyMjk4NzExMA==&mid=2247507693&idx=1&sn=e73e1cca5af2ee80c3037daa1dbd2ab1&poc_token=HGokPGmjYq2xcJOaDd5WY4hY5Za-wN0Xy1iNhqJ7
https://any.run/cybersecurity-blog/lazarus-group-it-workers-investigation/
e73e1cca5af2ee80c3037daa1dbd2ab1