According to estimates, Sapphire Sleet, a threat actor with ties to North Korea, stole over $10 million worth of cryptocurrencies over the course of six months of social engineering activities.
According to Microsoft’s research, many threat activity clusters with connections to the nation have been seen fabricating LinkedIn profiles that pretend to be both recruiters and job seekers in order to raise illegal funds for the sanctioned country.
Hacking organizations APT38 and BlueNoroff overlap with Sapphire Sleet, which has been active since at least 2020. The tech firm disclosed in November 2023 that the threat actor had set up infrastructure to conduct its social engineering efforts by mimicking skills evaluation platforms read more North Korean Hackers Steal $10M with AI-Driven Scams and Malware on LinkedIn.
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