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UN Panel of Experts S/2023/171 (46)

Date (as written)IncidentCountryActors
since March 2020VHD, BEAF, PXJ, ZZZZ and ChiChi ransomwareBlueNoroff (also known as APT38) (code similarities)
since July 2020Voice phishing hacking applications sold by Song Rim (continued)China; Republic of KoreaSong Rim (Munitions Industry Department-linked IT worker)
2022-07Maui RansomwareUnited States, ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต JapanAndariel
2022-07H0lyGh0st RansomwareUnited StatesDEV-0530
2022-06Harmony BridgeUnited States
2022-03Axie InfinityViet Nam
2022-11-15T10:00:28DTrack activity targeting Europe and Latin America
2022-09-29T16:00:00+00:00 (published_time)ZINC weaponizing open-source software (PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, muPDF/Subliminal Recording) via LinkedIn/WhatsAppUS, UK, India, and RussiaZINC (now Diamond Sleet)
01.02.2022Between February and July 2022, the North Korean group Lazarus targeted organizations, including energy service providers worldwideGlobal (region);Canada;United States;JapanLazarus Group/Labyrinth Chollima/HIDDEN COBRA/Guardians of Peace/Diamond Sleet fka ZINC/NICKEL ACADEMY/NewRomanic Cyber Army Team/Whois Hacking Team/Appleworm/Group 77/G0032 (Reconnaissance General Bureau, Bureau 121, Unit 180, Lab 110)
2022-09SlowMist: Investigation of North Korean APTโ€™s Large-Scale Phishing Attack on NFT UsersLazarus Group, Hidden Cobra, Labyrinth Chollima
2022-12-27T08:00:26BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MoTW
27 Apr 2022Stonefly: North Korea-linked Spying Operation Continues to Hit High-value Targets
2022-01-13T09:00:23The BlueNoroff cryptocurrency hunt is still on
2022-12-01T15:41:19+00:00 (published_time)Lazarus Group AppleJeus campaign via fake BloxHolder cryptocurrency trading website and malicious Office documentsLazarus Group
31/03/2022Cryptocurrency users and investors.>1Lazarus Group
2022-12-26๊ธฐ์žยท๊ตญํšŒ์˜์›์‹ค๋“ฑ ์‚ฌ์นญ ์ „์ž์šฐํŽธ ๋ฐœ์†ก์‚ฌ๊ฑด, ๋ถ ํ•ดํ‚น์กฐ์ง ์†Œํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธ
2022-07-19 (press release date)Justice Department Seizes and Forfeits Approximately $500,000 from North Korean Ransomware Actors and their Conspirators
08/02/2022Organizations in South KoreaKRKimsuky AKA TA406
2022-10-24Unveil the evolution of Kimsuky targeting Android devices with newly discovered mobile malwareKimsuky
2022-03-23PDF ๋ฌธ์„œ๋กœ ์œ„์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์œ ํฌ๋˜๋Š” VBS ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฝํŠธ (Kimsuky)Kimsuky
2022-03-29์šธ์ง„ ์‚ฐ๋ถˆ ํ”ผํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ ์˜์ˆ˜์ฆ์œผ๋กœ ์œ„์žฅํ•œ ์›Œ๋“œ ๋ฌธ์„œ APT ๊ณต๊ฒฉ (Kimsuky)Kimsuky
2022-04-18INITECH ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์— ์ธ์ ์…˜๋ผ ๋™์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์‹ ์ข… ์•…์„ฑ์ฝ”๋“œLazarus; ๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค
2022-05-18๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ฃผ์ œ์˜ ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์นญํ•œ Kimsuky ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์‹œ๋„Kimsuky
2022-06-30๋ฐœ์ฃผ์„œ, ํ’ˆ์˜์„œ๋ฅผ ์œ„์žฅํ•œ AppleSeed ์œ ํฌKimsuky
2022-07-21ํŠน์ • ๊ตฐ๋ถ€๋Œ€ ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์—…์ฒด ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ AppleSeed ์œ ํฌKimsuky
2022-07-26๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ž ๋ฉ”์ผ์— ํšŒ์‹ ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๋งํฌ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋Š” ์›Œ๋“œ๋ฌธ์„œ (Kimsuky)Kimsuky
2022-09-22๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ BYOVD๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฃจํŠธํ‚ท ์•…์„ฑ์ฝ”๋“œ ๋ถ„์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค
2022-10-06๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน DLL Side-Loading ๊ธฐ๋ฒ• ์ด์šฉ (mi.dll)๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค
2022-10-27์›์ž๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „์†Œ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ AppleSeed ์œ ํฌKimsuky
June 2022Targeting of a governmental entity in UkraineUkraineLazarus
OctoberAttacks targeting digital asset firmsLazarus Group
DecemberAppleJeus AttacksLazarus Group
JanuaryDistribution of KONNI RATKimsuky
FebruaryAPT attacks using DPRK related documentsKimsuky
MarchAPT attacks using Word Files about CryptocurrencyKimsuky
AprilTargeting Chemical Sector (Operation Dream Job)Lazarus Group
MayExploiting Log4Shell Vulnerability (NukeSped)Lazarus Group
โ€œSHARPEXTโ€ malicious browser extension campaignKimsuky (โ€œSharptongueโ€)
AugustAppleSeed on Nuclear Energy related IndustriesKimsuky
MacOS spear-phishing with fake Coinbase job advertisements targeting fintech developersLazarus Group
SeptemberAmazon-themed campaigns (Dell)Lazarus Group
SeptemberThree RATs attackLazarus Group
Windows rootkit exploiting a Dell firmware driver (CVE-2021-21551), BLINDINGCAN backdoor; target included an aerospace company employeeLazarus Group
DLL side-loading attacks and vulnerable driver modulesLazarus Group
NovemberTargeting Ukraine EntitiesLazarus Group
Malicious Word files with DPRK-related materials sent from fake personaeKimsuky