Cybercrime Rigged Coding Assignment, Abused AI Tool Opened Path to $6 Billion Binance Heist Binance’s first incident report traces the record theft to a months-long campaign that compromised three engineers’ computers. Eduard Kovacs9 hours ago
Government North Korea Launches Missiles Toward the Sea as Pyongyang Protests Against US Claims on Binance Hack In recent months, North Korea has accelerated its weapons tests in a likely bid to increase its leverage in potential diplomacy with the US. Associated Press10 hours ago
Cybercrime $6 Billion Binance Hack Bears Hallmarks of North Korea’s TraderTraitor Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop. Eduard Kovacs5 days ago
Cybercrime US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms Investigators stormed 40 locations in Texas and seized 187 laptops used by North Korean IT workers to hide their location. Ionut ArghireOctober 14, 2026
Cybercrime North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist Bitget’s security systems caught the unauthorized transfers on September 24, and some wallet addresses linked to the attacker have been frozen. Eduard KovacsSeptember 25, 2026
Nation-State Japan Dismantles First North Korean Laptop Farm as US and Allies Detail Wider Scheme The US, Japan, Germany and Australia have published a joint report detailing the scope of North Korea’s WaterPlum campaign. Eduard KovacsSeptember 22, 2026
Supply Chain Security Rust Team Members and Popular Crate Owners Targeted via Video Calls It’s unclear if the attacks are part of previous campaigns against Rust, but the techniques used by the attackers match those used by North... Eduard KovacsSeptember 21, 2026
Malware & Threats North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Espionage Toolkit The stealthy toolkit embeds a backdoor in HAProxy and targets automotive and media organizations in South Korea for long-term surveillance. Ionut ArghireSeptember 7, 2026
Malware & Threats Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers Hackers pushed a poisoned arrayref version that added a dependency to fetch a malicious payload from a remote server. Ionut ArghireAugust 21, 2026
Vulnerabilities Fresh Windows Zero-Day Exploited in North Korean Cyberattacks The bug allowed attackers to gain full control of the victims’ systems and deploy the ForestTiger backdoor. Ionut ArghireAugust 12, 2026
Supply Chain Security North Korean Hackers Target Open Source Developers in Supply Chain Attacks The PolinRider campaign has compromised more than 100 legitimate open source packages and repositories to deliver a backdoor and information stealer to developers. Ionut ArghireJuly 6, 2026
Supply Chain Security North Korean Hackers Blamed for Mastra NPM Supply Chain Attack A malicious dependency the attackers added to over 140 Mastra packages fetches a payload targeting cryptocurrency extensions. Ionut ArghireJune 22, 2026
Nation-State North Korean Hackers Use AppleScript, ClickFix in Fresh macOS Attacks The campaigns focus on financial organizations, including cryptocurrency, venture capital, and blockchain entities. Ionut ArghireApril 22, 2026
Cybercrime $290 Million Kelp DAO Crypto Heist Blamed on North Korea The hackers targeted LayerZero’s DVN, compromising certain RPCs and DDoSing others to trigger failover to the poisoned infrastructure. Ionut ArghireApril 21, 2026
Cybercrime Two North Korean IT Worker Scheme Facilitators Jailed in the US Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang compromised the identities of dozens of US persons to help land jobs at over 100 companies. Ionut ArghireApril 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Impacted by North Korea-Linked Axios Supply Chain Hack The AI giant is taking action after determining that a macOS code signing certificate may have been compromised. Eduard KovacsApril 13, 2026
Supply Chain Security North Korean Hackers Target High-Profile Node.js Maintainers The threat actor behind the Axios supply chain attack has been aiming at other maintainers in its social engineering campaign. Ionut ArghireApril 6, 2026
Cybercrime North Korean Hackers Drain $285 Million From Drift in 10 Seconds The attackers prepared infrastructure and multiple nonce-based transactions, took over an admin key, and drained five vaults. Ionut ArghireApril 3, 2026
Application Security Axios NPM Package Breached in North Korean Supply Chain Attack A long-lived NPM access token was used to bypass the GitHub Actions OIDC-based CI/CD publishing workflow and push backdoored package versions. Ionut ArghireApril 1, 2026
Cybercrime Polyfill Supply Chain Attack Impacting 100k Sites Linked to North Korea The 2024 incident was initially linked to China, but an infostealer infection has now revealed North Korean involvement. Eduard KovacsMarch 12, 2026