| SYMBOL | COMMON_NAME | aka. SYNONYMS |
This threat actor uses spear-phishing techniques to target private-sector energy, defense, aerospace, research, and media organizations and embassies in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, for the purpose of espionage.
| 2019-08-12 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Recent Cloud Atlas activity PowerShower |
| 2019 ⋅ Council on Foreign Relations ⋅ Inception Framework Inception Framework |
| 2018-11-05 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Inception Attackers Target Europe with Year-old Office Vulnerability PowerShower |
| 2018-03-14 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Inception Framework: Alive and Well, and Hiding Behind Proxies Inception Framework |
| 2017-10-16 ⋅ Akamai ⋅ UPnProxy: Blackhat Proxies via NAT Injections Inception Framework |
| 2015-01-20 ⋅ Blue Coat ⋅ Reversing the Inception APT malware Inception Framework |
| 2015-01-14 ⋅ LogRhythm ⋅ Catching the “Inception Framework” Phishing Attack Inception Framework |
| 2014-12-10 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Cloud Atlas: RedOctober APT is back in style Inception Framework |
| 2014-12-09 ⋅ Blue Coat ⋅ Blue Coat Exposes “The Inception Framework”; Very Sophisticated, Layered Malware Attack Targeted at Military, Diplomats, and Business Execs CloudAtlas Inception Framework |
| 2014-12-09 ⋅ Blue Coat ⋅ The Inception Framework: Cloud-hosted APT Inception Framework |
| 2014-12-09 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Blue Coat Exposes “The Inception Framework”; Very Sophisticated, Layered Malware Attack Targeted at Military, Diplomats, and Bus Inception Framework |
| 2013-01-14 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ "Red October" Diplomatic Cyber Attacks Investigation Inception Framework |