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CryptoCore (9)

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Date (as written)IncidentCountryActors
2024-03-13NFPrompt
2024-10-31M2
2024-07-15IrysCryptoCore
Throughout 2024CryptoCore fake-recruiter campaign contacting over 1,200 cryptocurrency company employees (Slack skill assessment tests)over a dozen countriesCryptoCore
fall 2024Fake videoconferencing troubleshooting spear phishing campaign (AppleScripts)CryptoCore
early 2025Takeover of the email account of an India-based cryptocurrency gaming company’s CEO; spear phishing of over 250 individualsIndiaCryptoCore
February 2025 (OpenAI report); 2025 (DeepSeek)Use of OpenAI tools, ChatGPT and DeepSeekCryptoCore; TraderTraitor
March and April 2025Registration of fake video conferencing domains for spear phishing (e.g. web001-zoom.us, zoomsdk.us, secure-meeting.cloud)CryptoCore
Malicious NPM packages for skill assessment tests (e.g. “myetherpackage,” “cryptooooo,” “libcrypt-test”)CryptoCore, in addition to other DPRK actor groups