North Korean APT43 Group Uses Cybercrime to Fund Espionage Operations

A new North Korean nation-state cyber operator has been attributed to a series of campaigns orchestrated to gather strategic intelligence that aligns with Pyongyang’s geopolitical interests since 2018.
Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker APT43, said the group’s motives are both espionage- and financially-motivated, leveraging techniques like credential