Threat Actor Profile: Lazarus Group
2025-09-02 • Cyble •
Cyble profiles Lazarus Group as a North Korean state-sponsored actor conducting financially motivated intrusions, espionage, ransomware, supply-chain compromise, and cryptocurrency and fintech targeting alongside broader activity against defense, government, healthcare, technology, and other high-value sectors. The profile links Lazarus tradecraft to spearphishing attachments and links, LinkedIn and social-media lures in Operation Dream Job, drive-by compromise of legitimate websites, malicious macros, PowerShell, WMIC, scheduled tasks, command-shell execution, credential misuse, and exploitation of client-side vulnerabilities such as Adobe Flash CVE-2018-4878. It lists a broad malware arsenal that includes backdoors such as BADCALL and Dtrack, credential-theft tools such as Mimikatz and ProcDump, loaders and downloaders, tunneling tools, wipers, and Hermes ransomware. The cited aliases, global targeting footprint, and campaigns such as DarkSeoul, WannaCry, Operation Dream Job, and supply-chain attacks make the profile useful for mapping Lazarus capabilities across both espionage and revenue-generating operations.