UNC4899 Used AirDrop File Transfer and Cloud Exploits to Steal Millions From Crypto Firm

Mar 09, 2026
DevOps / Threat Intelligence

The North Korean threat actor known as UNC4899 is suspected to be behind a sophisticated cloud compromise campaign targeting a cryptocurrency organization in 2025 to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The activity has been attributed with moderate confidence to the state-sponsored adversary, which is also tracked under the cryptonyms Jade Sleet, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and TraderTraitor.  "This incident is notable for its blend of social engineering, exploitation of personal-to-corporate device peer-to-peer data (P2P) transfer mechanisms, workflows, and eventual pivot to the cloud to employ living-off-the-cloud (LOTC) techniques," the tech giant noted in its H1 2026 Cloud Threat Horizons Report [PDF] shared with The Hacker News. Upon gaining access to the cloud environment, the attackers are said to have abused legitimate DevOps workflows to harvest credentials, break out of the confines of containers, and tamper with Cloud SQL databases to facilitate the cr…

UNC4899 Used AirDrop File Transfer and Cloud Exploits to Steal Millions From Crypto Firm

Mar 09, 2026
DevOps / Threat Intelligence

The North Korean threat actor known as UNC4899 is suspected to be behind a sophisticated cloud compromise campaign targeting a cryptocurrency organization in 2025 to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The activity has been attributed with moderate confidence to the state-sponsored adversary, which is also tracked under the cryptonyms Jade Sleet, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and TraderTraitor.  “This incident is notable for its blend of social engineering, exploitation of personal-to-corporate device peer-to-peer data (P2P) transfer mechanisms, workflows, and eventual pivot to the cloud to employ living-off-the-cloud (LOTC) techniques,” the tech giant noted in its H1 2026 Cloud Threat Horizons Report [PDF] shared with The Hacker News. Upon gaining access to the cloud environment, the attackers are said to have abused legitimate DevOps workflows to harvest credentials, break out of the confines of containers, and tamper with Cloud SQL databases to facilitate the cr…


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