{
 "tag": "bluenoroff",
 "name": "Bluenoroff",
 "group": "Other",
 "incidents": [
  {
   "slug": "bluenoroff-ghostcall-ghosthire-genai-malware-oct-2025",
   "title": "Kaspersky: North Korea's BlueNoroff uses generative AI to speed up malware in GhostCall and GhostHire crypto attacks",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-ghostcall-ghosthire-genai-malware-oct-2025",
   "json": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-ghostcall-ghosthire-genai-malware-oct-2025.json",
   "status": "closed",
   "severity": "medium",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "verification": "verified",
   "ai": {
    "role": "ai-malware",
    "note": "Kaspersky says generative AI has let BlueNoroff speed up malware development and refine its attack techniques; it describes the fake calls as replaying videos of earlier victims, not deepfakes."
   },
   "chains": [
    "multi-evm"
   ],
   "method": "social-engineering",
   "product": "Web3 and crypto executives, founders and blockchain developers",
   "tags": [
    "multi-evm",
    "social-engineering",
    "dprk",
    "bluenoroff",
    "lazarus",
    "ghostcall",
    "ghosthire",
    "snatchcrypto",
    "fake-meeting",
    "fake-job-interview",
    "telegram",
    "github",
    "macos",
    "kaspersky",
    "ai"
   ],
   "amountUsd": null,
   "victims": null,
   "startedAt": "2025-10-28",
   "closedAt": "2025-10-28",
   "updatedAt": "2025-10-28T12:00:00Z",
   "summary": "Kaspersky disclosed on 28 October 2025 two BlueNoroff campaigns aimed at Web3 and crypto organisations in India, Turkey, Australia and other countries in Europe and Asia, active since at least April 2025. GhostCall reaches executives and founders on Telegram with fake investor meetings, where an 'audio fix' installs malware; GhostHire sends blockchain developers fake job tests in GitHub repositories that hide malware. Kaspersky says generative AI has helped the group develop malware faster, and the payloads include crypto stealers. No loss figures were given."
  },
  {
   "slug": "bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025",
   "title": "North Korea's BlueNoroff used deepfaked executives on a Zoom call to infect a crypto foundation employee's Mac",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025",
   "json": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025.json",
   "status": "closed",
   "severity": "medium",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "verification": "verified",
   "ai": {
    "role": "ai-lure",
    "note": "Huntress says the Zoom meeting contained several deepfakes of known senior leaders of the victim's company, used to make the call look genuine before the fake 'extension' install."
   },
   "chains": [
    "multi-evm"
   ],
   "method": "social-engineering",
   "product": "Crypto foundation staff on macOS",
   "tags": [
    "multi-evm",
    "social-engineering",
    "dprk",
    "bluenoroff",
    "ta444",
    "lazarus",
    "deepfake",
    "zoom",
    "fake-meeting",
    "telegram",
    "calendly",
    "macos",
    "cryptobot",
    "infostealer",
    "huntress",
    "ai"
   ],
   "amountUsd": null,
   "victims": 1,
   "startedAt": "2025-06-11",
   "closedAt": "2025-06-18",
   "updatedAt": "2025-06-18T12:00:00Z",
   "summary": "Huntress reported on 18 June 2025 that an employee of a cryptocurrency foundation was contacted on Telegram, sent a Calendly invite and led to a fake Zoom domain. Weeks later the employee joined a group call that contained several deepfakes of the company's senior leadership; when 'audio problems' came up, they were told to install a Zoom extension that was really a malicious AppleScript. It installed a set of macOS backdoors, a keylogger and screen recorder, and a crypto-wallet stealer called CryptoBot. Huntress did not say whether funds were stolen."
  }
 ],
 "changes": [
  {
   "incident": "bluenoroff-ghostcall-ghosthire-genai-malware-oct-2025",
   "incidentTitle": "Kaspersky: North Korea's BlueNoroff uses generative AI to speed up malware in GhostCall and GhostHire crypto attacks",
   "severity": "medium",
   "status": "closed",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "date": "2025-10-28",
   "title": "Kaspersky disclosed the GhostCall and GhostHire campaigns and their targets.",
   "sourceUrl": "https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/about/press-releases/kaspersky-bluenoroff-targets-executives-on-windows-and-macos-using-ai-driven-tools",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-ghostcall-ghosthire-genai-malware-oct-2025"
  },
  {
   "incident": "bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025",
   "incidentTitle": "North Korea's BlueNoroff used deepfaked executives on a Zoom call to infect a crypto foundation employee's Mac",
   "severity": "medium",
   "status": "closed",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "date": "2025-06-18",
   "title": "Huntress published its analysis, attributing the attack to BlueNoroff (TA444).",
   "sourceUrl": "https://www.huntress.com/blog/inside-bluenoroff-web3-intrusion-analysis",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025"
  },
  {
   "incident": "bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025",
   "incidentTitle": "North Korea's BlueNoroff used deepfaked executives on a Zoom call to infect a crypto foundation employee's Mac",
   "severity": "medium",
   "status": "closed",
   "threatStatus": "active",
   "date": "2025-06-11",
   "title": "Huntress was contacted about the intrusion on the employee's Mac.",
   "sourceUrl": "https://www.huntress.com/blog/inside-bluenoroff-web3-intrusion-analysis",
   "url": "https://drains.watch/i/bluenoroff-deepfake-zoom-crypto-foundation-jun-2025"
  }
 ]
}