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Using Windows shortcut files, the APT deployed a new implant, a loader, a propagation tool, and two backdoors.
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Cybercrime
Oleksandr Didenko sold the stolen identities of US citizens, allowing North Koreans to get hired using freelance work platforms.
Malware & Threats
The hackers trick victims into accessing GitHub or GitLab repositories that are opened using Visual Studio Code.
Malware & Threats
The North Korean state-sponsored espionage group Kimsuky has targeted government organizations, think tanks, and academic institutions.
Nation-State
Data from Chainalysis and Amazon offers a glimpse into North Korea’s cyber activities surrounding cryptocurrency theft and fake IT workers.
Malware & Threats
North Korean threat actors are believed to be behind CVE-2025-55182 exploitation delivering EtherRAT.
Cybercrime
Audricus Phagnasay, Jason Salazar, Alexander Paul Travis, Erick Ntekereze, and Oleksandr Didenko have pleaded guilty.
Government
Australia mirrored the US’s recent sanctions against bankers, financial institutions, and others allegedly involved in laundering funds for North Korea.
Cybercrime
The United States has imposed sanctions on a group of bankers, financial institutions and others accused of laundering money from cyber crime schemes.
Nation-State
Lazarus has used fake job offers in attacks targeting companies developing UAV technology, for information theft.
Nation-State
The hackers are believed to have stolen over $6 billion for the Pyongyang regime, financing its military programs.
Nation-State
North Korean threat actors pose as recruiters to steal developers’ identities and supply them to fraudulent IT workers.
Nation-State
The hackers were seen actively monitoring cyber threat intelligence to discover and rebuild exposed infrastructure.
Fraud & Identity Theft
US Treasury sanctions Russian and Chinese entities tied to North Korea’s use of fake IT workers, who exploited stolen identities, AI, and malware to...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Christina Chapman was sentenced to prison for helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate US companies and running a laptop farm for them.
Malware & Threats
SentinelOne says the fake Zoom update scam delivers ‘NimDoor’, a rare Nim-compiled backdoor.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The US has made 29 searches of known or suspected laptop farms supporting North Korean individuals posing as US IT workers.
Cybercrime
North Korean hackers employ social engineering to trick Zoom Meeting participants into executing system-takeover commands.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The US is seeking the forfeiture of $7.74 million in cryptocurrency in frozen wallets tied to North Korean fake IT workers schemes.
Incident Response
SentinelOne has shared some information on the types of threat actors that have targeted the security firm recently.
Artificial Intelligence
An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 distinct Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2 million.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Malware & Threats
Phishing
More than 200 sites were seen serving phishing content to first-time visitors but not to those who revisit.
Vulnerabilities
Artificial Intelligence
