Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-08-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: deBridge Finance
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Host
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: Attackers suspected to be from the North Korean Lazarus group used a phishing email to trick company employees and steal cryptocurrency from deBridge Finance, a cross-chain protocol that enables the decentralized transfer of assets between various blockchains.