2022-year-in-retrospect-report.pdf (11 MB)

PwC's 2022 threat retrospective is a broad landscape report, but its DPRK-relevant section notes that North Korea-based threat actors intensified financially motivated operations. The excerpt says these actors continued targeting financial services, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance while the wider APT landscape largely followed previously observed targeting patterns. This DPRK activity is framed alongside broader 2022 trends, including vulnerability exploitation, cloud and identity targeting, and geopolitical shifts driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For Lazarus Day purposes, the key supported finding is North Korea's continued emphasis on crypto and DeFi theft rather than the report's unrelated Russia, China, Iran, ransomware, or hacktivist sections.