Kaspersky Securelist
IT threat evolution Q2 2017 (DPRK-related paragraph 4) · 2017-08-15
The Lazarus group is very large and has historically focused mainly on cyber-espionage and cyber-sabotage activities. The group’s interest in financial gain is relatively new and it seems as though a different team within Lazarus is responsible for the generation of illegal profits: we have dubbed this team Bluenoroff. So far, we have seen four main types of target: financial institutions, casinos, companies developing financial trade software and those in the crypto-currency business.