BlueNoroff Group: The Financial Cybercrime Arm of Lazarus
2026-01-20 • Picus Security •
https://www.picussecurity.com/resource/blog/bluenoroff-group-the-financial-cybercrime-arm-of-lazarus
BlueNoroff is presented as the financially motivated arm of Lazarus, evolving from SWIFT and bank intrusions such as the Bangladesh Central Bank heist into sustained cryptocurrency and Web3 targeting. The excerpt traces campaigns including SnatchCrypto, fake cryptocurrency software companies, RustBucket, GhostCall, and GhostHire, with victims including banks, financial organizations, cryptocurrency holders, executives, and developers. Reported tradecraft includes LinkedIn and Telegram reconnaissance, fake investor or job-interview personas, malicious meeting and assessment links, lookalike domains, malicious Go and TypeScript packages, browser-extension tampering, macOS Launch Agents and Daemons, AppleScript, VBScript, ClickFix, process injection, TCC manipulation, and UAC bypass. The report also notes C2 and phishing infrastructure such as support.video-meeting[.]online and swissborg[.]blog, and describes credential and wallet theft as a consistent enabler of large-scale financial theft.