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Kuwait Bank

Date (as written)
2019-03
Year
2019
Country
Kuwait
Actor pages
Suspected DPRK
Tags (as written)
Finance FinancialGain
Dollar figures (as written)
49M USD

Source entries (3)

lazarus.day

Kuwait Bank · 2019-03
Kuwait Bank is included in UN Panel of Experts reporting on DPRK cyber operations against financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges for revenue generation and sanctions evasion. The linked evidence does not describe the bank-specific intrusion chain, but frames the Kuwait incident within DPRK-directed cyber-enabled theft and laundering activity tied to broader weapons-program funding networks.
https://lazarus.day/incidents/kuwaitbank/

UN Panel of Experts S/2019/691

Reported theft of 49M USD · March 2019
Annex 21: Suspected DPRK cyber-attacks on financial institutions (including banks and cryptocurrency exchanges) investigated by the Panel. A. Banks. Reported theft of 49M USD
https://undocs.org/S/2019/691

Mendeley Data: Collection of DPRK state-sponsored threat actors' activities v2 (Lyu, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)

Kuwait Bank · 2019-03
Reported: 2019-03; Victims: Kuwait Bank; Motivations: FinancialGain; Sectors: Finance; Countries: Kuwait
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/wwb2rzgfn7/2

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actors: Suspected DPRK
Annex 21: Suspected DPRK cyber-attacks on financial institutions (including banks and cryptocurrency exchanges) investigated by the Panel
https://undocs.org/S/2019/691
dollar figures: Reported theft of 49M USD
March 2019 Kuwait Reported theft of 49M USD
https://undocs.org/S/2019/691

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