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UNC4899 Breached Crypto Firm After Developer AirDropped Trojanized File to Work Device

UNC4899 Breached Crypto Firm After Developer AirDropped Trojanized File to Work Device

Ravie LakshmananMar 09, 2026DevOps / 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…

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