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Costa Rican Financial Institution

Date (as written)
2018-01
Year
2018
Country
Costa Rica
Actors (as written)
Bluenoroff
Actor pages
Bluenoroff
Tags (as written)
Finance FinancialGain
Dollar figures (as written)
USD 19 million; 19M USD

Source entries (3)

lazarus.day

Costa Rican Financial Institution · 2018-01
A private Costa Rican financial institution was targeted in January 2018 in an attempted USD 19 million theft. Carnegie's financial-sector timeline and UN Panel reporting linked the case to DPRK-affiliated actors, placing it within the wider North Korean campaign against banks and financial institutions for sanctions-evasion revenue.
https://lazarus.day/incidents/costaricanfi/

UN Panel of Experts S/2019/691

Attempted theft of 19M USD · Jan 2018
Annex 21: Suspected DPRK cyber-attacks on financial institutions (including banks and cryptocurrency exchanges) investigated by the Panel. A. Banks. Attempted theft of 19M USD
https://undocs.org/S/2019/691

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

Costa Rican Financial Institution · 2018-01
Reported: 2018-01; Victims: Costa Rican Financial Institution; Motivations: FinancialGain; Sectors: Finance; Countries: Costa Rica
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/wwb2rzgfn7/2

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