APT ATLAS

Atlas Actors147 Names471 Sectors40 Requirements480

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Atlas Actors147 Names471 Sectors40 Requirements480

AppleJeus (aka AppleJeus, Gleaming Pisces) · APT Atlas

Actors/Nation-state / APT/Asia

AppleJeus

APTKP · North Korea

AKA Gleaming Pisces · Citrine Sleet · Labyrinth Chollima · Nickel Academy · Hidden Cobra · Lazarus Group

Microsoft: DEV-0139CrowdStrike: LABYRINTH CHIMERAMandiant: UNC4736

DPRK financially-motivated cluster targeting cryptocurrency.

Targets25

Sectors18

Threat types1

GIRs covered0/480

Active since2018

QUICK FACTS

TypeNation-state / APT

OriginNorth Korea

First seen2018

Type (verbatim)nation-state APT

GIR coverage0/480

TTPs2

Targets25

Sectors18

Last reviewed2026-07-29

Also tracked as

3 vendor names · 6 other aliases

Open Rosetta Stone

CrowdStrike

LABYRINTH CHIMERA

Mandiant

UNC4736

Microsoft

DEV-0139

UNATTRIBUTED ALIASESGleaming PiscesCitrine SleetLabyrinth ChollimaNickel AcademyHidden CobraLazarus Group

Victimology

Geographic footprint · 25 countries

origin · North Koreatargeted countries · 25

AMERICAS · 3

Argentina · Brazil · Canada

EUROPE · 14

Belgium · Germany · Denmark · Estonia · Spain · United Kingdom · Hungary · Italy · Netherlands · Poland · Russia · Sweden · Slovenia · Ukraine

ASIA · 6

Israel · India · Japan · South Korea · Türkiye · Vietnam

OCEANIA · 1

New Zealand

AFRICA · 1

South Africa

Sectors targeted

18 of 40

Government100 actors Defense72 actors Aerospace59 actors Financial Services74 actors Cryptocurrency21 actors Pharmaceutical27 actors Telecom72 actors Energy / Utilities59 actors Education & Research62 actors Manufacturing (man)50 actors Media & Journalism49 actors Transportation31 actors Consulting / Professional Services35 actors Industrials / Engineering29 actors Private Sector (generic)29 actors Consumer Goods / Electronics20 actors Agriculture & Food18 actors Maritime24 actors

Tactics, techniques, procedures

Threat types + MITRE ATT&CK mapping

THREAT TYPES

FIN · Financial Fraud

MITRE ATT&CK · 2 techniques

Initial Access · 1

T1566Phishing

Impact · 1

T1657Financial Theft

GIR coverage

0 / 480 requirements satisfied

Open matrix

No GIRs mapped yet for this actor.

Open data

Machine-readable exports of this profile

JSON · RESTActor recordFull profile via the public v1 API STIX 2.1Intrusion-set bundleDeterministic ids · techniques + targeted countries ATT&CK NAVIGATORTechnique layer2 techniques · layer format 4.5

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