Lazarus Group overview
2023-02-19 • Tribal Sec •
https://tribalsec.substack.com/p/cyberthreat-apt-lazarus-group-overview
The Substack overview profiles Lazarus as a North Korean state-linked threat group also tracked as Hidden Cobra or Zinc, with subgroups such as Andariel and BlueNoroff and reported overlaps with APT37 and Kimsuky. It summarizes major operations including Operation Troy, Dark Seoul, the Sony Pictures attack, the Bangladesh Bank heist, WannaCry, cryptocurrency theft, and attacks on healthcare, energy, and research organizations. The source describes broad targeting across government, defense, financial, media, critical-infrastructure, cryptocurrency, IT, and telecommunications sectors, and lists TTPs including spear-phishing, supply-chain and watering-hole activity, backdoors, DDoS, destructive malware, and exploitation of vulnerable software.