- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- North Korea(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0712 · elusive-comet
What it is
ELUSIVE COMET is a threat actor responsible for significant cryptocurrency theft through sophisticated social engineering attacks, particularly leveraging Zoom's remote control feature. Their attack methodology involves manipulating legitimate workflows and exploiting human-centric vulnerabilities rather than technical flaws. The actor employs tactics such as social proof, time pressure, and interface manipulation to deceive targets. Organizations can mitigate risks by implementing technical controls to disable the remote control feature and deploying email boundary protections like DMARC, SPF, and DKIM.
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)North Korea
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)North Korea
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Remote Utilities
- RemoteCMD
- RemotePC
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de