May 2025 APT Group Trends (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab is monitoring Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in South Korea using its own infrastructure. This report covers the classification, statistics, and features of APT attacks in Korea that were identified over the course of a month in May 2025. Figure 1. Statistics of APT attacks in
April 2025 Threat Trend Report on APT Attacks (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab is monitoring Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in South Korea using its own infrastructure. This report covers the classification, statistics, and functions of APT attacks detected in South Korea over the course of one month in April 2025. Figure 1. Statistics of APT attacks in South
Malicious LNK Disguised as Notices
AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) recently discovered a malicious LNK file being distributed to Korean users for the purpose of stealing user information. This type of malware collects various valuable data for threat actors, such as data related to virtual assets, browsers, public certificates, and email files, and it also
ATIP_March 2025_Threat Trend Report on APT Groups
Purpose and Scope This report covers nation-led threat groups, presumed to conduct cyber espionage or sabotage supported by certain governments. These groups are referred to as advanced persistent threat (APT) groups for the sake of convenience. Therefore, this report does not contain information on cybercriminal groups aiming to gain financial
March 2025 APT Group Trends (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab is monitoring Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in South Korea using its own infrastructure. This report covers the classification, statistics, and features of the APT attacks in South Korea that were identified in March 2025, as well as the attack types. Figure 1. Statistics of
February 2025 APT Group Trends (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab is monitoring Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in South Korea using its own infrastructure. This report covers the classification, statistics, and features of the APT attacks in South Korea that were identified in February 2025, as well as the attack types. Figure 1. Statistics of APT
January 2025 Threat Trend Report on APT Attacks (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab is monitoring Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks in South Korea using its own infrastructure. This report covers the classification and statistics of APT attacks in South Korea that have been identified over the course of a month in January 2025, as well as the features of each attack
December 2024 Threat Trend Report on APT Attacks (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab has been using AhnLab Smart Defense (ASD) to monitor advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks against targets in South Korea. This report will cover the types and statistics of APT attacks in South Korea during December 2024 as well as features for each type. Figure 1. December 2024 statistics
November 2024 Threat Trend Report on APT Attacks (South Korea)
Overview AhnLab has been using AhnLab Smart Defense (ASD) to monitor advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks against targets in Korea. This report will cover the types and statistics of APT attacks in Korea during November 2024 as well as features of each type. Figure 1. November 2024 statistics on
2024 MSC Malware Trend Report
With the decrease in distribution of MS Office document-type malware, the distribution of malware in various formats such as LNK and CHM is on the rise. In the second quarter of this year, malware in the MSC (snap-ins/Management Saved Console) file format used in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) was identified.

