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Operation Ghoul  (Back to overview)


Operation Ghoul is a profit-driven threat actor that targeted over 130 organizations in 30 countries, primarily in the industrial and engineering sectors. They employed high-quality social engineering techniques, such as spear-phishing emails disguised as payment advice from a UAE bank, to distribute malware. The group's main motivation is financial gain through the sale of stolen intellectual property and business intelligence, as well as attacks on banking accounts. Their attacks were effective, particularly against companies that were unprepared to detect them.


Associated Families

There are currently no families associated with this actor.


References
2016-12-14Kaspersky LabsKaspersky
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2016. Review of the year. Overall statistics for 2016
Operation Ghoul
2016-08-17Kaspersky LabsMohamad Amin Hasbini
Operation Ghoul: targeted attacks on industrial and engineering organizations
OpGhoul Operation Ghoul

Credits: MISP Project