Nation-state cyber threat actors affiliated to North Korea have been observed using spear-phishing attacks to deliver an assortment of backdoors and tools such as AppleSeed, Meterpreter, and TinyNuke to seize control of compromised machines. The South Korea-based cybersecurity company AhnLab attributed the activity to an advanced persistent threat group known as Kimsuky. "A notable point about attacks that use AppleSeed is that similar methods of attack have been used for many years with no si
