Ricochet Chollima
Ricochet Chollima (also known as APT 37, Reaper, and ScarCruft) is a North Korean state backed hacker group group that is believed to have created sometime before 2016 and is typically involved in operations against financial institutions to generate assets for North Korea. But also conducts attacks on the industrial sector in other countries. CrowdStrike has stated that the groups operations mainly target South Korean with a focus on government officials, non-governmental organizations, academics, journalists, and North Korean defectors. But also stated the group has also engaged in attacks aganist Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Middle East , Russia, and the United States. FireEye has called the group "the overlooked North Korean threat actor." History. The group is believed to have been founded sometime around 2012, according to FireEye. In January 2021 the group was found to be using a Trojan horse for a spear-phishing campaign that targeted the South Korean government.