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December 2025 APT Group Trends · 2026-01-19
excerpt: Key APT Group Trends by Region 1) North Korea North Korean state‑sponsored threat groups have increasingly relied on fake IT employment schemes, actively exploiting legitimate hiring platforms and fabricated identities to infiltrate corporate environments. These actors frequently take advantage of remote‑work infrastructures to obtain elevated access and conduct long‑term social engineering op | attribution sentence: Source · Smile, You’re on Camera: A Live Stream from Inside Lazarus Group’s IT Workers Scheme [1] Famous Chollima disguised itself as fake remote workers, infiltrated companies through recruitment, and then used PiKVM devices to gain covert and persistent access to corporate networks. | target sentence: Time · Unknown Targets · U.S.