The Lazarus Group is North Korean state sponsored cybercrime group and they have been credited, in one way or another, with a recent social engineering campaign targeting developers on GitHub. They are said to have been created by the North Korean government as early as 2007 and they are a part of the RGB, which is North Korea’s primary foreign intelligence agency. “Lazarus Group” would appear to be the primary identity of the group, but they do have several aliases such as Appleworm, Group 77
