Threat Actor 🇰🇵 North Korea
WageMole
Also known as: Famous Chollima · UNC5267 · Wagemole · Nickel Tapestry · Storm-1877 · Void Dokkaebi · WaterPlum · PurpleBravo
WageMole is a North Korean state-sponsored APT that employs social engineering and technology to secure remote job opportunities in Western countries, leveraging stolen personal data from the Contagious Interview campaign. Threat actors create fake identities, including passports and driver's licenses, and prepare study guides for interviews, often utilizing generative AI for well-structured responses. They target small to mid-sized businesses and utilize job platforms like Upwork and Indeed, while employing automation scripts for account creation. WageMole's activities include sharing code within their group and requesting payments through platforms like PayPal to conceal their identity.
Indicators of Compromise 37
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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 21
T1005 T1027 T1055 T1056.001 T1059 T1059.001 T1071 T1071.001 T1071.003 T1078 T1082 T1083 T1105 T1113 T1114 T1123 T1133 T1482 T1490 T1555 T1566
Data from Local System
Collection
Obfuscated Files or Information
Defense Evasion
Process Injection
Defense Evasion
Keylogging
Collection
Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
PowerShell
Execution
Application Layer Protocol
Command And Control
Web Protocols
Command And Control
Mail Protocols
Command And Control
Valid Accounts
Defense Evasion
System Information Discovery
Discovery
File and Directory Discovery
Discovery
Ingress Tool Transfer
Command And Control
Screen Capture
Collection
Email Collection
Collection
Audio Capture
Collection
External Remote Services
Persistence
Domain Trust Discovery
Discovery
Inhibit System Recovery
Impact
Credentials from Password Stores
Credential Access
Phishing
Initial Access
Source Articles
North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales
North Korean threat actors, operating under multiple aliases including PurpleDelta, Jasper Sleet, and Wagemole, are conducting a large-scale job fraud campaign to infiltrate global companies in IT, healthcare, sales, and other sectors. These actors use forged identities, AI-generated profiles, and synthetic personas to gain remote employment, often using laptop farms equipped with PiKVM and Guermok USB devices to maintain control. They leverage tools like AnyDesk, Telegram, and Slack for coordination, and abuse legitimate platforms such as Workday, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams during recruitment and employment, posing significant insider threat and sanctions compliance risks.
hacker-news ·2d ago
BeaverTail and OtterCookie evolve with a new Javascript module
Cisco Talos identified a new attack campaign linked to the DPRK-aligned threat group Famous Chollima, which uses social engineering through fake job offers to distribute trojanized Node.js applications. The campaign leverages malicious npm packages like 'node-nvm-ssh' and combines the BeaverTail and OtterCookie malware tools to steal credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and system information. Recent evolution includes merged functionality between BeaverTail and OtterCookie, with new capabilities such as keylogging, screenshot capture, and clipboard monitoring delivered via a modular JavaScript-based framework.
talos
PolinRider: North Korea-Linked Supply Chain Campaign Expands Across Open Source Ecosystems
PolinRider is a North Korea-linked supply chain campaign targeting developer ecosystems, including npm, Packagist, Go modules, and Chrome extensions. The threat actors compromise maintainer accounts, modify legitimate repositories with obfuscated JavaScript loaders, and use Git history rewriting to conceal malicious changes. These loaders retrieve encrypted second-stage payloads from blockchain infrastructure, execute them via eval(), and have delivered malware such as DEV#POPPER and OmniStealer. The campaign remains active, with ongoing compromises across multiple open source platforms.
socket-dev