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Mandiant / Google Cloud Threat Intelligence blog (19)

Date (as written)IncidentCountryActors
May-Sept 2017 / 23 September 2017ROK Police reported attacks on three cryptocurrency exchanges by DPRK actors and detailed that 25 employeesROKSuspected DPRK (annex title)
2017-09-17 (datePublished)Watering hole compromise of a bitcoin news site (2016)North Korean operators
2018-02-20 (datePublished)APT37 (Reaper) operations incl. zero-days and wiper malwarePrimarily South Korea – though also Japan, Vietnam and the Middle EastAPT37 (Reaper; Scarcruft; Group123)
2018-10-03 (datePublished)APT38 financial crime against banks worldwide (since at least 2014)at least 13 countriesAPT38
2022-09-14 (datePublished)UNC4034 job opportunity phishing via WhatsApp with trojanized PuTTY (AIRDRY.V2) at a media companyUNC4034 (suspected North Korea nexus)
2022-03-23 (datePublished)Bureau 325 COVID-19-focused targeting shifting to defectors, defense, governments, media, cryptocurrency services and financial institutionsBureau 325 (assessed)
2023-06JumpCloudUnited StatesUNC4899
2023-03-30T11:37:54+00:00 (published_time)3CX Desktop App supply chain compromise (ICONIC)UTA0040, later attributed to Lazarus
2023-03-09 (datePublished)UNC2970 job-recruitment phishing against Western media and technology companies (since June 2022)U.S.-based; U.S. and EuropeanUNC2970 (suspected UNC577 / Temp.Hermit)
2023-03-28 (datePublished)APT43 espionage and cryptocurrency theft to fund operationsSouth Korea, Japan, Europe, and the United StatesAPT43 (Kimsuky)
2023-10-10 (datePublished)COVID-19-focused DPRK task force targeting healthcare and research entitiesoverlaps with APT43 and TEMP.Hermit; unverified link to Andariel
2023-10-10 (datePublished)Suspected APT37 GitHub repository with decoy documents (exposed March 2023)South KoreaAPT37
2023-10-10 (datePublished)Andariel (UNC614) MAUI ransomware against hospitalsAndariel (UNC614)
2024-09-17 (datePublished)UNC2970 trojanized SumatraPDF job lures (MISTPEN via BURNBOOK) against energy and aerospaceU.S.UNC2970
2024-07-25 (datePublished)APT45 targeting of nuclear research facilities and Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (2019)IndiaAPT45
2024-07-25 (datePublished)APT45 targeting of a South Korean financial organization (2016) and spear-phishing of a South Asian bank (2021)South Korean; South AsianAPT45
2024-07-25 (datePublished)APT45 targeting of crop science division of a multinational corporation (September 2020)APT45
2024-07-25 (datePublished)APT45 long-running espionage, financial and possible ransomware operations (since 2009)APT45
2024-09-23 (datePublished)DPRK IT workers (UNC5267) obtaining remote employment; facilitator caseU.S.; China and Russia, with smaller numbers in Africa and Southeast AsiaUNC5267 (DPRK IT workers)