Pearl Sleet
Aliases: DEV-0215, LAWRENCIUM
- First seen
- 2012-01-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- KP
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:12:33
Targeted industries: media-and-entertainment government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:kp country_code:kr
Context
Pearl Sleet is a nation state activity group based in North Korea that has been active since at least 2012. They primarily target defectors from North Korea, media organizations in carrying out their cyber espionage activities.
Reports & references
- Microsoft — 3998431 (report)
- raw.githubusercontent.com — Microsoftmapping (report)
- Microsoft — Microsoft Threat Actor Naming (report)