CSIS entry 1026 · November 2014
North Korean hackers attacked a British production company planning to release a television series revolving around the imprisonment of a British nuclear scientist in the DPRK. The attack caused the cancellation of the series.
Mammoth Screen · 2018-09-06
A threat actor targeted Mammoth Screen, a UK production company that produced Opposite Number, a television drama set in North Korea.
Targeting of AMC Theatres · Sep 2018
A threat actor targeted U.S. movie theater chain AMC Theatres in 2014 using spear-phishing techniques. The U.S. Department of Justice
Targeting of Mammoth Screen · Sep 2018
A threat actor targeted Mammoth Screen, a UK production company that produced
Spear-phishing of movie theater chain and U.K. production company · Around November 2014
Around the same time, the group sent spear-phishing messages to other victims in the entertainment industry, including a movie theater chain and a U.K. company that was producing a fictional series involving a British nuclear scientist taken prisoner in DPRK.
AMC Theatres targeting · December 2014
the December 2014 targeting of AMC Theatres, which was scheduled to show the film;
Mammoth Screen intrusion · 2015
and a 2015 intrusion into Mammoth Screen, which was producing a fictional series involving a British nuclear scientist taken prisoner in DPRK.
Spear-phishing of AMC Theatres employees · December 3, 2014
I was first informed by AMC Theatres that this email account had sent an AMC Theatres employee a spear-phishing email on December 3, 2014. I later learned that [JG NAME REDACTED]@gmail.com sent spear-phishing messages to a total of five AMC Theatres employees on that same date. [Case No. 2:18-mj-01479, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California; filing: COMPLAINT filed as to Defendant Park Jin Hyok in violation of 18:371; 18:1349. Approved by Magistrate Judge Rozella A. O]
Spear-phishing of AMC Theatres employees · On December 2 and 3, 2014
Overt Act No. 2: On December 2 and 3, 2014, the hackers sent spear-phishing messages to AMC Theatres employees from multiple email accounts. [Case No. 2:20-cr-00614, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California; filing: SEALED INDICTMENT filed as to Jon Chang Hyok]