North Korea-linked groups remained highly active in Q1 2026, with Lazarus, BlueNoroff, Andariel, Famous Chollima/UNC1069, ScarCruft/APT37, Kimsuky, and Konni tied to financially motivated and espionage activity. The DPRK-relevant campaigns centered on fake recruiting and interview lures against cryptocurrency, Web3, AI, cloud, and software developers, using malicious Git repositories, VS Code tasks, npm hooks, ClickFix-style prompts, and malware such as BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, OtterCookie, GolangGhost, PylangGhost, AnyDesk RAT, DEV#POPPER RAT, and OmniStealer. The body also describes BlueNoroff cryptocurrency theft operations, Kimsuky phishing infrastructure abusing Naver/NTS-themed domains and cloud services, Konni malvertising and KakaoTalk propagation, ScarCruft ROKRAT delivery changes through HWP/OLE and DLL sideloading, and Andariel-linked ransomware or espionage targeting. Infrastructure patterns include dynamic DNS, unusual TLDs, VPS nodes, GitHub/GitLab, Vercel, Railway, Dropbox, Google Drive, and even Ethereum-based or cloud-native abuse, showing why defenders need monitoring across developer tooling, SaaS traffic, credentials, and cloud environments.