Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-11-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: bZx
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau (BlueNorff)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: North Korean threat actor steals $55 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from decentralized finance platform after compromising an employee private key through spear-phishing.