On-chain detective ZachXBT stated that Lazarus Group is not a single organization but a collective term for North Korea state-sponsored cyber attackers, with different subgroups posing varying levels of threat complexity; he pointed out that many attacks carried out through recruitment, emails, and video interviews are relatively basic and not very sophisticated, while the main groups conducting sustained high-complexity cryptographic attacks are a few subgroups such as TraderTraitor and AppleJeus.