December 2025 APT Group Trends

December 2025 APT Group Trends

  Key APT Group Trends by Region   1) North Korea   North Korean state‑sponsored threat groups have increasingly relied on fake IT employment schemes, actively exploiting legitimate hiring platforms and fabricated identities to infiltrate corporate environments. These actors frequently take advantage of remote‑work infrastructures to obtain elevated access and

September 2025 APT Group Trends

September 2025 APT Group Trends

Trends of Key APT Groups by Region   1)   North Korea   North Korea-linked APT groups have been intensively carrying out advanced spear-phishing and remote access attacks against the defense, military, and cryptocurrency sectors in South Korea. They have also introduced a new psychological deception technique using generative AI and

August 2025 Threat Trend Report on APT Groups

August 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

July 2025 Major APT Group Trends

July 2025 Major APT Group Trends

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

May 2025 APT Group Trends

May 2025 APT Group Trends

  Trends of major APT groups by country   1)   North Korea   The North Korean APT group has been targeting Ukrainian government agencies. This is different from the group’s typical attack targets, so further observation is required to determine whether this is a one-time attack or a strategic alliance

Threat Trend Report on  APT Groups

Threat Trend Report on APT Groups

The following are the main APT groups and their cases based on the analysis reports released by security companies and organizations in January 2025.   1.   Andariel   The Andariel group has executed an attack using the RID Hijacking technique to escalate account privileges and create hidden accounts.[1] RID Hijacking

APT Group Trends in October 2024

APT Group Trends in October 2024

  The following are the main APT groups and their cases based on the analysis reports released by security companies and organizations in October 2024.   1.   Andariel   Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team has found evidence that the Andariel group is launching financially motivated attacks against companies in the United

AhnLab and NCSC Release Joint Report on Microsoft Zero-Day Browser Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38178)

AhnLab and NCSC Release Joint Report on Microsoft Zero-Day Browser Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38178)

AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) browser and have conducted a detailed analysis on attacks that exploit this vulnerability. This post shares the joint analysis report “Operation Code on Toast by TA-RedAnt”