- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- North Korea(high confidence)
- Sources
- 4 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0545 · jinx-0164
What it is
JINX-0164 is a financially motivated threat actor active since mid-2025, primarily targeting software developers through recruitment-themed social engineering to steal cryptocurrencies and conduct supply chain attacks. Their operations have focused on macOS devices, utilizing malware such as AUDIOFIX and MINIRAT, with a notable supply chain compromise involving the trojanization of an npm package. The actor employs a shell script for initial system profiling and payload delivery, often spoofing legitimate services like Microsoft Teams and cryptocurrency companies. JINX-0164's infrastructure includes numerous lookalike domains and utilizes VPN exit nodes for accessing victim systems.
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.
- Trojan.Karagany
- Trojan.Mebromi
- miniRAT
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de