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Operation Soft Cell  (Back to overview)

aka: GALLIUM

In 2018, the Cybereason Nocturnus team identified an advanced, persistent attack targeting global telecommunications providers carried out by a threat actor using tools and techniques commonly associated with Chinese-affiliated threat actors, such as APT10. This multi-wave attacks focused on obtaining data of specific, high-value targets and resulted in a complete takeover of the network.

Associated Families
elf.pingpull elf.sword2033 win.poison_ivy win.reshell win.htran win.mim221 win.trochilus_rat win.mimikatz win.chinachopper
References
2025-03-24 ⋅ SYGNIA ⋅ Sygnia Team
Weaver Ant, the Web Shell Whisperer: Tracking a Live China-nexus Operation
CHINACHOPPER reGeorg
2025-03-20 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Asheer Malhotra, Brandon White, Jungsoo An, Vitor Ventura
UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan
LaZagne JuicyPotato Meterpreter MimiKatz UAT-5918
2024-10-30 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Jumpy Pisces Engages in Play Ransomware
Dtrack MimiKatz PLAY Sliver
2024-09-22 ⋅ BushidoToken ⋅ BushidoToken
The Russian APT Tool Matrix
MimiKatz reGeorg
2024-08-29 ⋅ Securonix ⋅ Den Iyzvyk, Tim Peck
From Cobalt Strike to Mimikatz: A Deep Dive into the SLOW#TEMPEST Campaign Targeting Chinese Users
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2024-05-23 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Daniel Frank, Lior Rochberger
Operation Diplomatic Specter: An Active Chinese Cyberespionage Campaign Leverages Rare Tool Set to Target Governmental Entities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia
Agent Racoon CHINACHOPPER Ghost RAT JuicyPotato MimiKatz Ntospy PlugX SweetSpecter TunnelSpecter CL-STA-0043
2024-04-19 ⋅ ⋅ Spiegel Online ⋅ Christoph Giesen, Hakan Tanriverdi, Simon Hage
VW-Konzern wurde jahrelang ausspioniert – von China?
CHINACHOPPER PlugX
2024-03-18 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi, Joseph C Chen
Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks
DinodasRAT PlugX Reshell ShadowPad Earth Krahang
2024-02-08 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Cisco Talos
New Zardoor backdoor used in long-term cyber espionage operation targeting an Islamic organization
HTran reGeorg Venom Proxy ZarDoor
2023-10-26 ⋅ ⋅ ANSSI ⋅ ANSSI
Attack Campaigns of APT28 since 2021
CredoMap DriveOcean Empire Downloader Graphite MimiKatz Mocky LNK reGeorg
2023-10-10 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Grayling: Previously Unseen Threat Actor Targets Multiple Organizations in Taiwan
Cobalt Strike Havoc MimiKatz Grayling
2023-09-22 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Lior Rochberger, Robert Falcone, Tom Fakterman
Persistent Attempts at Cyberespionage Against Southeast Asian Government Target Have Links to Alloy Taurus
Reshell GALLIUM
2023-09-22 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Lior Rochberger, Robert Falcone, Tom Fakterman
Cyberespionage Attacks Against Southeast Asian Government Linked to Stately Taurus, Aka Mustang Panda
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz RemCom ShadowPad TONESHELL
2023-09-12 ⋅ ⋅ ANSSI ⋅ ANSSI
FIN12: A Cybercriminal Group with Multiple Ransomware
BlackCat Cobalt Strike Conti Hive MimiKatz Nokoyawa Ransomware PLAY Royal Ransom Ryuk SystemBC
2023-09-07 ⋅ Sekoia ⋅ Jamila B.
My Tea’s not cold. An overview of China’s cyber threat
Melofee PingPull SoWaT Sword2033 MgBot MQsTTang PlugX TONESHELL Dalbit MirrorFace
2023-09-07 ⋅ CISA ⋅ CISA
Multiple Nation-State Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2022-47966 and CVE-2022-42475
Meterpreter MimiKatz
2023-08-22 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ Sanseo
Analysis of APT Attack Cases Targeting Web Services of Korean Corporations
Ladon Meterpreter MimiKatz Dalbit
2023-08-22 ⋅ ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ ASEC Analysis Team
Analyzing the new attack activity of the Andariel group
Andardoor MimiKatz QuiteRAT Tiger RAT Volgmer
2023-06-16 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks: Cortex Threat Research ⋅ Lior Rochberger
Through the Cortex XDR Lens: Uncovering a New Activity Group Targeting Governments in the Middle East and Africa
CHINACHOPPER Ladon Yasso CL-STA-0043
2023-04-26 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Chinese Alloy Taurus Updates PingPull Malware
PingPull Sword2033
2023-04-12 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Seongsu Park
Following the Lazarus group by tracking DeathNote campaign
Bankshot BLINDINGCAN ForestTiger LambLoad LPEClient MimiKatz NedDnLoader Racket Downloader Volgmer
2023-04-03 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Eduardo Mattos, JASON DEYALSINGH, Nick Richard, NICK SMITH, Tyler McLellan
ALPHV Ransomware Affiliate Targets Vulnerable Backup Installations to Gain Initial Access
LaZagne BlackCat MimiKatz
2023-03-23 ⋅ SentinelOne ⋅ Aleksandar Milenkoski, Joey Chen, Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, QGroup
Operation Tainted Love | Chinese APTs Target Telcos in New Attacks
mim221
2023-03-16 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Frank Lee, Scott Roland
Bee-Ware of Trigona, An Emerging Ransomware Strain
Cryakl MimiKatz Trigona
2023-02-13 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ kingkimgim
Dalbit (m00nlight): Chinese Hacker Group’s APT Attack Campaign
Godzilla Webshell ASPXSpy BlueShell CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Ladon MimiKatz Dalbit
2023-01-23 ⋅ Kroll ⋅ Elio Biasiotto, Stephen Green
Black Basta – Technical Analysis
Black Basta Cobalt Strike MimiKatz QakBot SystemBC
2023-01-05 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Bluebottle: Campaign Hits Banks in French-speaking Countries in Africa
CloudEyE Cobalt Strike MimiKatz NetWire RC POORTRY Quasar RAT BlueBottle
2022-12-24 ⋅ Medium (@DCSO_CyTec) ⋅ Denis Szadkowski, Hendrik Baecker, Jiro Minier, Johann Aydinbas
APT41 — The spy who failed to encrypt me
CHINACHOPPER
2022-11-30 ⋅ ⋅ FFRI Security ⋅ Matsumoto
Evolution of the PlugX loader
PlugX Poison Ivy
2022-11-09 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Hara Hiroaki, Ted Lee
Hack the Real Box: APT41’s New Subgroup Earth Longzhi
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Earth Longzhi
2022-10-18 ⋅ Intrinsec ⋅ CERT Intrinsec, Intrinsec
APT27 – One Year To Exfiltrate Them All: Intrusion In-Depth Analysis
HyperBro MimiKatz
2022-10-11 ⋅ ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ ASEC Analysis Team
From Exchange Server vulnerability to ransomware infection in just 7 days
LockBit MimiKatz
2022-09-29 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Witchetty: Group Uses Updated Toolset in Attacks on Governments in Middle East
CHINACHOPPER Lookback MimiKatz PlugX Unidentified 096 (Keylogger) x4 Witchetty
2022-09-15 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Webworm: Espionage Attackers Testing and Using Older Modified RATs
9002 RAT Ghost RAT Trochilus RAT
2022-09-13 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
New Wave of Espionage Activity Targets Asian Governments
MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT ShadowPad Trochilus RAT
2022-09-08 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Asheer Malhotra, Jung soo An, Vitor Ventura
Lazarus and the tale of three RATs
MagicRAT MimiKatz VSingle YamaBot
2022-09-07 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ Anuj Soni, Ryan Chapman
The Curious Case of “Monti” Ransomware: A Real-World Doppelganger
Conti MimiKatz Veeam Dumper
2022-09-06 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Thibaut Passilly
Worok: The big picture
MimiKatz PNGLoad reGeorg ShadowPad Worok
2022-09-01 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Trend Micro
Ransomware Spotlight Black Basta
Black Basta Cobalt Strike MimiKatz QakBot
2022-08-25 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC)
MERCURY leveraging Log4j 2 vulnerabilities in unpatched systems to target Israeli organizations
MimiKatz
2022-08-22 ⋅ Fortinet ⋅ Fred Gutierrez, Shunichi Imano
A Tale of PivNoxy and Chinoxy Puppeteer
Chinoxy Poison Ivy
2022-08-18 ⋅ Sophos ⋅ Sean Gallagher
Cookie stealing: the new perimeter bypass
Cobalt Strike Meterpreter MimiKatz Phoenix Keylogger Quasar RAT
2022-08-15 ⋅ SentinelOne ⋅ Vikram Navali
Detecting a Rogue Domain Controller – DCShadow Attack
MimiKatz TrickBot
2022-07-31 ⋅ BushidoToken Blog ⋅ BushidoToken
Space Invaders: Cyber Threats That Are Out Of This World
Poison Ivy Raindrop SUNBURST TEARDROP WastedLocker
2022-07-27 ⋅ ReversingLabs ⋅ Joseph Edwards
Threat analysis: Follina exploit fuels 'live-off-the-land' attacks
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2022-07-26 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Jay Christiansen, Keith Lunden, Ken Proska, Thibault van Geluwe de Berlaere
Mandiant Red Team Emulates FIN11 Tactics To Control Operational Technology Servers
Clop Industroyer MimiKatz Triton
2022-07-26 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team
Malicious IIS extensions quietly open persistent backdoors into servers
CHINACHOPPER MimiKatz
2022-07-18 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Obscure Serpens
Cobalt Strike Empire Downloader Meterpreter MimiKatz DarkHydrus
2022-07-18 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Shallow Taurus
FormerFirstRAT IsSpace NewCT PlugX Poison Ivy Tidepool DragonOK
2022-07-18 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Crawling Taurus
Poison Ivy APT20
2022-07-18 ⋅ Censys ⋅ Censys
Russian Ransomware C2 Network Discovered in Censys Data
Cobalt Strike DeimosC2 MimiKatz PoshC2
2022-07-18 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Iron Taurus
CHINACHOPPER Ghost RAT Wonknu ZXShell APT27
2022-06-30 ⋅ Kaspersky ⋅ Pierre Delcher
The SessionManager IIS backdoor: a possibly overlooked GELSEMIUM artefact
MimiKatz Owlproxy SessionManager
2022-06-21 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Chris Neal, Flavio Costa, Guilherme Venere
Avos ransomware group expands with new attack arsenal
AvosLocker Cobalt Strike DarkComet MimiKatz
2022-06-20 ⋅ ⋅ Infinitum IT ⋅ infinitum IT
Charming Kitten (APT35)
LaZagne DownPaper MimiKatz pupy
2022-06-15 ⋅ Security Joes ⋅ Charles Lomboni, Felipe Duarte, Venkat Rajgor
Backdoor via XFF: Mysterious Threat Actor Under Radar
CHINACHOPPER
2022-06-03 ⋅ AttackIQ ⋅ AttackIQ Adversary Research Team, Jackson Wells
Attack Graph Response to US CERT AA22-152A: Karakurt Data Extortion Group
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2022-06-02 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Mandiant Intelligence
To HADES and Back: UNC2165 Shifts to LOCKBIT to Evade Sanctions
FAKEUPDATES Blister Cobalt Strike DoppelPaymer Dridex FriedEx Hades LockBit Macaw MimiKatz Phoenix Locker WastedLocker
2022-06-01 ⋅ Elastic ⋅ Andrew Pease, Daniel Stepanic, Derek Ditch, Salim Bitam, Seth Goodwin
CUBA Ransomware Campaign Analysis
Cobalt Strike Cuba Meterpreter MimiKatz SystemBC
2022-06-01 ⋅ CISA ⋅ CISA, Department of the Treasury (Treasury), FBI, FINCEN
Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (Product ID AA22-152A): Karakurt Data Extortion Group
MimiKatz
2022-06-01 ⋅ CISA ⋅ CISA, Department of the Treasury (Treasury), FBI, FINCEN
Alert (AA22-152A): Karakurt Data Extortion Group
MimiKatz
2022-05-17 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Trend Micro Research
Ransomware Spotlight: RansomEXX
LaZagne Cobalt Strike IcedID MimiKatz PyXie RansomEXX TrickBot
2022-05-17 ⋅ Positive Technologies ⋅ Positive Technologies
Space Pirates: analyzing the tools and connections of a new hacker group
FormerFirstRAT PlugX Poison Ivy Rovnix ShadowPad Zupdax
2022-05-16 ⋅ JPCERT/CC ⋅ Shusei Tomonaga
Analysis of HUI Loader
HUI Loader PlugX Poison Ivy Quasar RAT
2022-04-27 ⋅ ⋅ ANSSI ⋅ ANSSI
LE GROUPE CYBERCRIMINEL FIN7
Bateleur BELLHOP Griffon SQLRat POWERSOURCE Andromeda BABYMETAL BlackCat BlackMatter BOOSTWRITE Carbanak Cobalt Strike DNSMessenger Dridex DRIFTPIN Gameover P2P MimiKatz Murofet Qadars Ranbyus SocksBot
2022-04-27 ⋅ Trendmicro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi, Jaromír Hořejší
Operation Gambling Puppet
reptile oRAT AsyncRAT Cobalt Strike DCRat Ghost RAT PlugX Quasar RAT Trochilus RAT Earth Berberoka
2022-04-19 ⋅ Varonis ⋅ Nadav Ovadia
Hive Ransomware Analysis
Cobalt Strike Hive MimiKatz
2022-04-08 ⋅ Infinitum Labs ⋅ Arda Büyükkaya
Threat Spotlight: Conti Ransomware Group Behind the Karakurt Hacking Team
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2022-04-07 ⋅ splunk ⋅ Splunk Threat Research Team
You Bet Your Lsass: Hunting LSASS Access
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2022-04-05 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Cicada: Chinese APT Group Widens Targeting in Recent Espionage Activity
MimiKatz SodaMaster
2022-04-05 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Cicada: Chinese APT Group Widens Targeting in Recent Espionage Activity
MimiKatz APT10
2022-03-25 ⋅ Dragos ⋅ Conor McLaren, Dragos
How Dragos Activity Groups Obtain Initial Access into Industrial Environments
MimiKatz
2022-03-09 ⋅ BreachQuest ⋅ Bernard Silvestrini, Marco Figueroa, Napoleon Bing
The Conti Leaks | Insight into a Ransomware Unicorn
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz TrickBot
2022-03-01 ⋅ VirusTotal ⋅ VirusTotal
VirusTotal's 2021 Malware Trends Report
Anubis AsyncRAT BlackMatter Cobalt Strike DanaBot Dridex Khonsari MimiKatz Mirai Nanocore RAT Orcus RAT
2022-02-03 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Symantec Threat Hunter Team
Antlion: Chinese APT Uses Custom Backdoor to Target Financial Institutions in Taiwan
MimiKatz xPack Antlion
2022-01-27 ⋅ JSAC 2021 ⋅ Hajime Yanagishita, Kiyotaka Tamada, Suguru Ishimaru, You Nakatsuru
What We Can Do against the Chaotic A41APT Campaign
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike HUI Loader SodaMaster
2021-12-14 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Espionage Campaign Targets Telecoms Organizations across Middle East and Asia
MimiKatz
2021-12-06 ⋅ Notice of Pleadings ⋅ Microsoft
Complaint filed by Microsoft against NICKEL/APT15
MimiKatz
2021-12-06 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Digital Security Unit (DSU), Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC)
NICKEL targeting government organizations across Latin America and Europe
MimiKatz
2021-12-06 ⋅ PARAFLARE ⋅ Melanie Ninovic
Attack Lifecycle Detection of an Operational Technology Breach
MimiKatz
2021-11-18 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Digital Security Unit (DSU), Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC)
Iranian targeting of IT sector on the rise
MimiKatz ShellClient RAT Cuboid Sandstorm
2021-11-05 ⋅ Twitter (@inversecos) ⋅ inversecos
TTPs used by Pysa Ransonmware group
Mespinoza MimiKatz
2021-11-03 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Caitlin Huey, Chetan Raghuprasad, Vanja Svajcer
Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities exploited once again for ransomware, this time with Babuk
Babuk CHINACHOPPER
2021-11-01 ⋅ Accenture ⋅ Curt Wilson, Heather Larrieu, Katrina Hill
Diving into double extortion campaigns
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2021-10-25 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Falcon OverWatch Team
OverWatch Elite In Action: Prompt Call Escalation Proves Vital to Containing Attack
MimiKatz
2021-10-15 ⋅ Volatility Labs ⋅ Volatility Labs
Memory Forensics R&D Illustrated: Detecting Mimikatz's Skeleton Key Attack
MimiKatz
2021-10-11 ⋅ Accenture ⋅ Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence
Moving Left of the Ransomware Boom
REvil Cobalt Strike MimiKatz RagnarLocker REvil
2021-09-24 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Warren Sto.Tomas
Examining the Cring Ransomware Techniques
Cobalt Strike Cring MimiKatz
2021-09-21 ⋅ eSentire ⋅ eSentire
Ransomware Hackers Attack a Top Safety Testing Org. Using Tactics and Techniques Borrowed from Chinese Espionage Groups
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz UNC215
2021-09-14 ⋅ McAfee ⋅ Christiaan Beek
Operation ‘Harvest’: A Deep Dive into a Long-term Campaign
MimiKatz PlugX Winnti
2021-09-09 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Grayfly: Chinese Threat Actor Uses Newly-discovered Sidewalk Malware
CROSSWALK MimiKatz SideWalk
2021-09-03 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Adrian Sanchez Hernandez, Alex Pennino, Andrew Rector, Brendan McKeague, Govand Sinjari, Harris Ansari, John Wolfram, Joshua Goddard, Yash Gupta
PST, Want a Shell? ProxyShell Exploiting Microsoft Exchange Servers
CHINACHOPPER HTran
2021-08-30 ⋅ ⋅ Qianxin ⋅ Red Raindrop Team
Operation (Thủy Tinh) OceanStorm: The evil lotus hidden under the abyss
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2021-08-23 ⋅ FBI ⋅ FBI
Indicators of Compromise Associated with OnePercent Group Ransomware
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2021-08-15 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
The Ransomware Threat
Babuk BlackMatter DarkSide Avaddon Babuk BADHATCH BazarBackdoor BlackMatter Clop Cobalt Strike Conti DarkSide DoppelPaymer Egregor Emotet FiveHands FriedEx Hades IcedID LockBit Maze MegaCortex MimiKatz QakBot RagnarLocker REvil Ryuk TrickBot WastedLocker
2021-08-10 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Israel Research Team, U.S. Threat Intel Team
UNC215: Spotlight on a Chinese Espionage Campaign in Israel
HyperBro HyperSSL MimiKatz
2021-08-03 ⋅ Cybereason ⋅ Assaf Dahan, Daniel Frank, Lior Rochberger, Tom Fakterman
DeadRinger: Exposing Chinese Threat Actors Targeting Major Telcos
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Nebulae
2021-07-20 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
Ongoing Campaign Leveraging Exchange Vulnerability Potentially Linked to Iran
CHINACHOPPER MimiKatz RGDoor
2021-06-29 ⋅ Accenture ⋅ Accenture Security
HADES ransomware operators continue attacks
Cobalt Strike Hades MimiKatz
2021-06-16 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
Threat Activity Group RedFoxtrot Linked to China’s PLA Unit 69010; Targets Bordering Asian Countries
Icefog PcShare PlugX Poison Ivy QuickHeal DAGGER PANDA
2021-06-10 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Adam Burgher
BackdoorDiplomacy: Upgrading from Quarian to Turian
CHINACHOPPER DoublePulsar EternalRocks turian BackdoorDiplomacy
2021-05-18 ⋅ Sophos ⋅ Greg Iddon, John Shier, Mat Gangwer, Peter Mackenzie
The Active Adversary Playbook 2021
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2021-05-13 ⋅ AWAKE ⋅ Kieran Evans
Catching the White Stork in Flight
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz RMS
2021-05-07 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Andrew Windsor, Caitlin Huey, Edmund Brumaghin
Lemon Duck spreads its wings: Actors target Microsoft Exchange servers, incorporate new TTPs
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Lemon Duck
2021-05-07 ⋅ SophosLabs Uncut ⋅ Rajesh Nataraj
New Lemon Duck variants exploiting Microsoft Exchange Server
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Lemon Duck
2021-05-06 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Arianne Dela Cruz, Cris Tomboc, Jayson Chong, Nikki Madayag, Sean Torre
Proxylogon: A Coinminer, a Ransomware, and a Botnet Join the Party
BlackKingdom Ransomware CHINACHOPPER Lemon Duck Prometei
2021-05-05 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Multi-Factor Authentication: Headache for Cyber Actors Inspires New Attack Techniques
CHINACHOPPER
2021-04-27 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Earle Earnshaw, Janus Agcaoili
Legitimate Tools Weaponized for Ransomware in 2021
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz
2021-04-27 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Janus Agcaoili
Hello Ransomware Uses Updated China Chopper Web Shell, SharePoint Vulnerability
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike
2021-04-16 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Nitesh Surana
Could the Microsoft Exchange breach be stopped?
CHINACHOPPER
2021-04-15 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Robert Falcone
Actor Exploits Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities, Cortex XDR Blocks Harvesting of Credentials
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-31 ⋅ Red Canary ⋅ Red Canary
2021 Threat Detection Report
Shlayer Andromeda Cobalt Strike Dridex Emotet IcedID MimiKatz QakBot TrickBot
2021-03-26 ⋅ Imperva ⋅ Daniel Johnston
Imperva Observes Hive of Activity Following Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Disclosures
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-25 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Tom McElroy
Web Shell Threat Hunting with Azure Sentinel
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-25 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team
Analyzing attacks taking advantage of the Exchange Server vulnerabilities
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-21 ⋅ Twitter (@CyberRaiju) ⋅ Jai Minton
Twitter Thread with analysis of .NET China Chopper
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-21 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ Blackberry Research
2021 Threat Report
Bashlite FritzFrog IPStorm Mirai Tsunami elf.wellmess AppleJeus Dacls EvilQuest Manuscrypt Astaroth BazarBackdoor Cerber Cobalt Strike Emotet FinFisher RAT Kwampirs MimiKatz NjRAT Ryuk SmokeLoader TrickBot
2021-03-19 ⋅ Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik ⋅ CERT-Bund
Microsoft Exchange Schwachstellen Detektion und Reaktion (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065)
CHINACHOPPER MimiKatz
2021-03-17 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
China-linked TA428 Continues to Target Russia and Mongolia IT Companies
PlugX Poison Ivy TA428
2021-03-15 ⋅ Trustwave ⋅ Joshua Deacon
HAFNIUM, China Chopper and ASP.NET Runtime
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-11 ⋅ Cyborg Security ⋅ Josh Campbell
You Don't Know the HAFNIUM of it...
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike PowerCat
2021-03-11 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Microsoft Exchange Server Attack Timeline
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-11 ⋅ DEVO ⋅ Fran Gomez
Detection and Investigation Using Devo: HAFNIUM 0-day Exploits on Microsoft Exchange Service
CHINACHOPPER MimiKatz
2021-03-10 ⋅ Lemon's InfoSec Ramblings ⋅ Josh Lemon
Microsoft Exchange & the HAFNIUM Threat Actor
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-10 ⋅ PICUS Security ⋅ Süleyman Özarslan
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) Used by HAFNIUM to Target Microsoft Exchange Servers
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-10 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Mathieu Tartare, Matthieu Faou, Thomas Dupuy
Exchange servers under siege from at least 10 APT groups
Microcin MimiKatz PlugX Winnti APT27 APT41 Calypso Tick ToddyCat Tonto Team Vicious Panda
2021-03-10 ⋅ DomainTools ⋅ Joe Slowik
Examining Exchange Exploitation and its Lessons for Defenders
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-09 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Remediation Steps for the Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-09 ⋅ Red Canary ⋅ Brian Donohue, Katie Nickels, Tony Lambert
Microsoft Exchange server exploitation: how to detect, mitigate, and stay calm
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-09 ⋅ PRAETORIAN ⋅ Anthony Weems, Dallas Kaman, Michael Weber
Reproducing the Microsoft Exchange Proxylogon Exploit Chain
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-09 ⋅ YouTube (John Hammond) ⋅ John Hammond
HAFNIUM - Post-Exploitation Analysis from Microsoft Exchange
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-08 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
How Symantec Stops Microsoft Exchange Server Attacks
CHINACHOPPER MimiKatz
2021-03-08 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Jeff White
Analyzing Attacks Against Microsoft Exchange Server With China Chopper Webshells
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-07 ⋅ TRUESEC ⋅ Rasmus Grönlund
Tracking Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day ProxyLogon and HAFNIUM
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-05 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Andy Greenberg
Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-05 ⋅ Huntress Labs ⋅ Huntress Labs
Operation Exchange Marauder
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-04 ⋅ Huntress Labs ⋅ Huntress Labs
Operation Exchange Marauder
CHINACHOPPER
2021-03-04 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Andrew Thompson, Chris DiGiamo, Matt Bromiley, Robert Wallace
Detection and Response to Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-04 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ The Falcon Complete Team
Falcon Complete Stops Microsoft Exchange Server Zero-Day Exploits
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-03 ⋅ Huntress Labs ⋅ John Hammond
Rapid Response: Mass Exploitation of On-Prem Exchange Servers
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-03 ⋅ Huntress Labs ⋅ Huntress Labs
Mass exploitation of on-prem Exchange servers :(
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-03 ⋅ MITRE ⋅ MITRE ATT&CK
HAFNIUM
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-02 ⋅ Twitter (@ESETresearch) ⋅ ESET Research
Tweet on Exchange RCE
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-02 ⋅ Volexity ⋅ Josh Grunzweig, Matthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, Thomas Lancaster
Operation Exchange Marauder: Active Exploitation of Multiple Zero-Day Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-02 ⋅ Rapid7 Labs ⋅ Andrew Christian
Rapid7’s InsightIDR Enables Detection And Response to Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-03-02 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC)
HAFNIUM targeting Exchange Servers with 0-day exploits
CHINACHOPPER HAFNIUM
2021-02-26 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Eric Loui, Sergei Frankoff
Hypervisor Jackpotting: CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER Target ESXi Servers With Ransomware to Maximize Impact
DarkSide RansomEXX Griffon Carbanak Cobalt Strike DarkSide IcedID MimiKatz PyXie RansomEXX REvil
2021-02-01 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Ignacio Sanmillan, Matthieu Faou
Operation NightScout: Supply‑chain attack targets online gaming in Asia
Ghost RAT NoxPlayer Poison Ivy Red Dev 17
2021-01-29 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Trend Micro
Chopper ASPX web shell used in targeted attack
CHINACHOPPER MimiKatz
2021-01-26 ⋅ Twitter (@swisscom_csirt) ⋅ Swisscom CSIRT
Tweet on Cring Ransomware groups using customized Mimikatz sample followed by CobaltStrike and dropping Cring rasomware
Cobalt Strike Cring MimiKatz
2021-01-18 ⋅ ⋅ Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz ⋅ Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
BfV Cyber-Brief Nr. 01/2021 : Vorgehensweise von APT31
MimiKatz
2021-01-15 ⋅ Swisscom ⋅ Markus Neis
Cracking a Soft Cell is Harder Than You Think
Ghost RAT MimiKatz PlugX Poison Ivy Trochilus RAT
2021-01-08 ⋅ Youtube (Virus Bulletin) ⋅ Fumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi
Operation LagTime IT: colourful Panda footprint
Cotx RAT nccTrojan Poison Ivy Tmanger TA428
2021-01-01 ⋅ DomainTools ⋅ Joe Slowik
Conceptualizing a Continuum of Cyber Threat Attribution
CHINACHOPPER SUNBURST
2021-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
Threat Profile: GOLD FRANKLIN
Grateful POS Meterpreter MimiKatz RemCom FIN6
2021-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
Threat Profile: GOLD BURLAP
Empire Downloader Mespinoza MimiKatz GOLD BURLAP
2021-01-01 ⋅ SecureWorks
Threat Profile: GOLD DRAKE
Cobalt Strike Dridex FriedEx Koadic MimiKatz WastedLocker Evil Corp
2020-12-21 ⋅ ⋅ SlideShare (yurikamuraki5) ⋅ Yurika Kakiuchi
Active Directory 侵害と推奨対策
MimiKatz
2020-12-15 ⋅ HvS-Consulting AG ⋅ HvS-Consulting AG
Greetings from Lazarus: Anatomy of a cyber espionage campaign
BLINDINGCAN MimiKatz Lazarus Group
2020-12-15 ⋅ HvS-Consulting AG ⋅ HvS-Consulting AG
Greetings from Lazarus Anatomy of a cyber espionage campaign
BLINDINGCAN HTTP(S) uploader MimiKatz
2020-12-09 ⋅ Avast Decoded ⋅ Igor Morgenstern, Luigino Camastra
APT Group Targeting Governmental Agencies in East Asia
LaZagne Albaniiutas HyperBro MimiKatz PolPo Tmanger TaskMasters
2020-12-04 ⋅ Theta ⋅ Hamish Krebs
Snakes & Ladders: the offensive use of Python on Windows
MimiKatz
2020-11-30 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Mitchell Clarke, Tom Hall
It's not FINished The Evolving Maturity in Ransomware Operations
Cobalt Strike DoppelPaymer MimiKatz QakBot REvil
2020-11-30 ⋅ Yoroi ⋅ Antonio Pirozzi, Luca Mella, Luigi Martire
Shadows From The Past Threaten Italian Enterprises
Rekoobe LaZagne Responder MimiKatz win.rekoobe
2020-11-27 ⋅ PTSecurity ⋅ Alexey Vishnyakov, Denis Goydenko
Investigation with a twist: an accidental APT attack and averted data destruction
TwoFace CHINACHOPPER HyperBro MegaCortex MimiKatz
2020-10-30 ⋅ YouTube (Kaspersky Tech) ⋅ Kris McConkey
Around the world in 80 days 4.2bn packets
Cobalt Strike Derusbi HyperBro Poison Ivy ShadowPad Winnti
2020-10-23 ⋅ F-Secure Labs ⋅ Guillaume Couchard, Qimin Wang, Thiam Loong Siew
Catching Lazarus: Threat Intelligence to Real Detection Logic - Part Two
MimiKatz
2020-10-20 ⋅ F-Secure ⋅ F-Secure Consulting
Incident Readiness: Preparing a proactive response to attacks
MimiKatz
2020-10-01 ⋅ US-CERT ⋅ US-CERT
Alert (AA20-275A): Potential for China Cyber Response to Heightened U.S.-China Tensions
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Empire Downloader MimiKatz Poison Ivy
2020-09-30 ⋅ NTT Security ⋅ Fumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi
Operation LagTime IT: colourful Panda footprint (Slides)
Cotx RAT nccTrojan Poison Ivy Tmanger
2020-09-30 ⋅ NTT Security ⋅ Fumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi
Operation LagTime IT: colourful Panda footprint
Cotx RAT nccTrojan Poison Ivy Tmanger
2020-09-17 ⋅ FBI ⋅ FBI
FBI PIN Number 20200917-001: IRGC-Associated Cyber Operations Against US Company Networks
MimiKatz Nanocore RAT
2020-09-16 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ Jon Gross
RiskIQ: Adventures in Cookie Land - Part 2
8.t Dropper Chinoxy Poison Ivy
2020-09-15 ⋅ US-CERT ⋅ US-CERT
Alert (AA20-259A): Iran-Based Threat Actor Exploits VPN Vulnerabilities
CHINACHOPPER Fox Kitten
2020-09-15 ⋅ US-CERT ⋅ US-CERT
Malware Analysis Report (AR20-259A): Iranian Web Shells
CHINACHOPPER
2020-08-31 ⋅ The DFIR Report ⋅ The DFIR Report
NetWalker Ransomware in 1 Hour
Cobalt Strike Mailto MimiKatz
2020-08-28 ⋅ NTT ⋅ Fumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi
Operation Lagtime IT: Colourful Panda Footprint
Cotx RAT Poison Ivy TA428
2020-08-19 ⋅ NTT Security ⋅ Fumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi
Operation LagTime IT: Colorful Panda Footprint
8.t Dropper Cotx RAT Poison Ivy TA428
2020-08-10 ⋅ ZDNet ⋅ Catalin Cimpanu
FBI says an Iranian hacking group is attacking F5 networking devices
MimiKatz
2020-08-06 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Andy Greenberg
Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Winnti Red Charon
2020-08-04 ⋅ BlackHat ⋅ Chung-Kuan Chen, Inndy Lin, Shang-De Jiang
Operation Chimera - APT Operation Targets Semiconductor Vendors
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Winnti Red Charon
2020-07-21 ⋅ Department of Justice ⋅ Department of Justice
Two Chinese Hackers Working with the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaign Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information, Including COVID-19 Research
CHINACHOPPER BRONZE SPRING
2020-06-24 ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
BRONZE VINEWOOD Targets Supply Chains
MimiKatz Trochilus RAT APT31
2020-06-18 ⋅ ⋅ Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz ⋅ Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
BfV Cyber-BriefNr. 01/2020 - Hinweis auf aktuelle Angriffskampagne
Ketrican MimiKatz
2020-06-03 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
How to perform long term monitoring of careless threat actors
BBSRAT HyperBro Trochilus RAT
2020-05-28 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Vyacheslav Kopeytsev
Steganography in targeted attacks on industrial enterprises
MimiKatz
2020-05-27 ⋅ FBI ⋅ FBI
Alert Number MI-000148-MW: APT Actors Exploiting Fortinet Vulnerabilities to Gain Access for Malicious Activity
MimiKatz
2020-05-21 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Martin Smolár, Mathieu Tartare
No “Game over” for the Winnti Group
ACEHASH HTran MimiKatz PipeMon
2020-05-21 ⋅ Bitdefender ⋅ Bogdan Rusu, Liviu Arsene
Iranian Chafer APT Targeted Air Transportation and Government in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
MimiKatz Remexi
2020-05-14 ⋅ Lab52 ⋅ Dex
The energy reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and a malicious campaign of APT10 against Turkey
Cobalt Strike HTran MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT
2020-05-14 ⋅ Avast Decoded ⋅ Luigino Camastra
APT Group Planted Backdoors Targeting High Profile Networks in Central Asia
BYEBY Ghost RAT Microcin MimiKatz Vicious Panda
2020-05-07 ⋅ REDTEAM.PL ⋅ Adam Ziaja
Sodinokibi / REvil ransomware
Maze MimiKatz REvil
2020-04-16 ⋅ Medium CyCraft ⋅ CyCraft Technology Corp
Taiwan High-Tech Ecosystem Targeted by Foreign APT Group: Digital Skeleton Key Bypasses Security Measures
Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Red Charon
2020-03-12 ⋅ Check Point ⋅ Check Point Research
Vicious Panda: The COVID Campaign
8.t Dropper BYEBY Enfal Korlia Poison Ivy
2020-03-05 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team
Human-operated ransomware attacks: A preventable disaster
Dharma DoppelPaymer Dridex EternalPetya Gandcrab Hermes LockerGoga MegaCortex MimiKatz REvil RobinHood Ryuk SamSam TrickBot WannaCryptor PARINACOTA
2020-03-02 ⋅ Virus Bulletin ⋅ Alex Hinchliffe
Pulling the PKPLUG: the adversary playbook for the long-standing espionage activity of a Chinese nation-state adversary
HenBox Farseer PlugX Poison Ivy
2020-02-21 ⋅ ADEO DFIR ⋅ ADEO DFIR
APT10 Threat Analysis Report
CHINACHOPPER HTran MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT
2020-02-19 ⋅ Lexfo ⋅ Lexfo
The Lazarus Constellation A study on North Korean malware
FastCash AppleJeus BADCALL Bankshot Brambul Dtrack Duuzer DYEPACK ELECTRICFISH HARDRAIN Hermes HOPLIGHT Joanap KEYMARBLE Kimsuky MimiKatz MyDoom NACHOCHEESE NavRAT PowerRatankba RokRAT Sierra(Alfa,Bravo, ...) Volgmer WannaCryptor
2020-02-18 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Vanja Svajcer
Building a bypass with MSBuild
Cobalt Strike GRUNT MimiKatz
2020-02-18 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Cedric Pernet, Daniel Lunghi, Jamz Yaneza, Kenney Lu
Uncovering DRBControl: Inside the Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting Gambling Operations
Cobalt Strike HyperBro PlugX Trochilus RAT Operation DRBControl
2020-02-02 ⋅ uf0 Blog ⋅ Matteo Malvica
Uncovering Mimikatz ‘msv’ and collecting credentials through PyKD
MimiKatz
2020-01-29 ⋅ nao_sec blog ⋅ nao_sec
An Overhead View of the Royal Road
BLACKCOFFEE Cotx RAT Datper DDKONG Derusbi Icefog Korlia NewCore RAT PLAINTEE Poison Ivy Sisfader
2020-01-09 ⋅ Lab52 ⋅ Jagaimo Kawaii
TA428 Group abusing recent conflict between Iran and USA
Poison Ivy
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
GOLD DRAKE
Dridex Empire Downloader FriedEx Koadic MimiKatz
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
GOLD KINGSWOOD
More_eggs ATMSpitter Cobalt Strike CobInt MimiKatz
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE PRESIDENT
CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike PlugX MUSTANG PANDA
2020-01-01 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Mandiant, Mitchell Clarke, Tom Hall
Mandiant IR Grab Bag of Attacker Activity
TwoFace CHINACHOPPER HyperBro HyperSSL
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE ATLAS
Speculoos Winnti ACEHASH CCleaner Backdoor CHINACHOPPER Empire Downloader HTran MimiKatz PlugX Winnti APT41
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE UNION
9002 RAT CHINACHOPPER Enfal Ghost RAT HttpBrowser HyperBro owaauth PlugX Poison Ivy ZXShell APT27
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE KEYSTONE
9002 RAT BLACKCOFFEE DeputyDog Derusbi HiKit PlugX Poison Ivy ZXShell APT17
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE VINEWOOD
MimiKatz Trochilus RAT APT31
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE RIVERSIDE
Anel ChChes Cobalt Strike PlugX Poison Ivy Quasar RAT RedLeaves APT10
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE FIRESTONE
9002 RAT Derusbi Empire Downloader PlugX Poison Ivy APT19
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
GOLD KINGSWOOD
More_eggs ATMSpitter Cobalt Strike CobInt MimiKatz Cobalt
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
ALUMINUM SARATOGA
BlackShades DarkComet Xtreme RAT Poison Ivy Quasar RAT Molerats
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE MAYFAIR
HTran pirpi APT3
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
COBALT HICKMAN
MimiKatz Remexi APT39
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
TIN WOODLAWN
Cobalt Strike KerrDown MimiKatz PHOREAL RatSnif Remy SOUNDBITE APT32
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE MOHAWK
AIRBREAK scanbox BLACKCOFFEE CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Derusbi homefry murkytop SeDll APT40
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE EXPRESS
9002 RAT CHINACHOPPER IsSpace NewCT PlugX smac APT26
2019-12-12 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center
GALLIUM: Targeting global telecom
CHINACHOPPER Ghost RAT HTran MimiKatz Poison Ivy GALLIUM
2019-11-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Kelli Vanderlee, Nalani Fraser
Achievement Unlocked: Chinese Cyber Espionage Evolves to Support Higher Level Missions
MESSAGETAP TSCookie ACEHASH CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Derusbi Empire Downloader Ghost RAT HIGHNOON HTran MimiKatz NetWire RC POISONPLUG Poison Ivy pupy Quasar RAT ZXShell
2019-09-23 ⋅ MITRE ⋅ MITRE ATT&CK
APT41
Derusbi MESSAGETAP Winnti ASPXSpy BLACKCOFFEE CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Derusbi Empire Downloader Ghost RAT MimiKatz NjRAT PlugX ShadowPad Winnti ZXShell APT41
2019-08-27 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Paul Rascagnères, Vanja Svajcer
China Chopper still active 9 years later
CHINACHOPPER
2019-08-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Alex Pennino, Matt Bromiley
GAME OVER: Detecting and Stopping an APT41 Operation
ACEHASH CHINACHOPPER HIGHNOON
2019-07-23 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Dennis Schwarz, Michael Raggi, Proofpoint Threat Insight Team
Chinese APT “Operation LagTime IT” Targets Government Information Technology Agencies in Eastern Asia
8.t Dropper Cotx RAT Poison Ivy TA428
2019-06-25 ⋅ Cybereason ⋅ Cybereason Nocturnus
OPERATION SOFT CELL: A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS
CHINACHOPPER HTran MimiKatz Poison Ivy Operation Soft Cell
2019-05-28 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Robert Falcone, Tom Lancaster
Emissary Panda Attacks Middle East Government Sharepoint Servers
CHINACHOPPER HyperSSL
2019-05-10 ⋅ XPN Blog ⋅ Adam Chester
Exploring Mimikatz - Part 1 - WDigest
MimiKatz
2019-04-04 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Harlan Carvey
Mimikatz in the Wild: Bypassing Signature-Based Detections Using the “AK47 of Cyber”
MimiKatz
2019-03-27 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Critical Attack Discovery and Intelligence Team
Elfin: Relentless Espionage Group Targets Multiple Organizations in Saudi Arabia and U.S.
DarkComet MimiKatz Nanocore RAT NetWire RC pupy Quasar RAT Remcos StoneDrill TURNEDUP APT33
2019-02-06 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group, Rapid7
APT10 Targeted Norwegian MSP and US Companies in Sustained Campaign
Trochilus RAT APT31 HURRICANE PANDA
2019-01-04 ⋅ Github (gentilkiwi) ⋅ Benjamin Delpy
mimikatz Repository
MimiKatz
2019-01-01 ⋅ Virus Bulletin ⋅ Bowen Pan, Lion Gu
A vine climbing over the Great Firewall: A long-term attack against China
Poison Ivy ZXShell
2019-01-01 ⋅ MITRE ⋅ MITRE ATT&CK
Tool description: China Chopper
CHINACHOPPER
2018-09-21 ⋅ Qihoo 360 Technology ⋅ Qihoo 360
Poison Ivy Group and the Cyberespionage Campaign Against Chinese Military and Goverment
Poison Ivy
2018-07-25 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Critical Attack Discovery and Intelligence Team, Network Protection Security Labs
Leafminer: New Espionage Campaigns Targeting Middle Eastern Regions
Imecab MimiKatz Sorgu RASPITE
2018-05-15 ⋅ BSides Detroit ⋅ Keven Murphy, Stefano Maccaglia
IR in Heterogeneous Environment
Korlia Poison Ivy
2018-03-16 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ FireEye
Suspected Chinese Cyber Espionage Group (TEMP.Periscope) Targeting U.S. Engineering and Maritime Industries
badflick BLACKCOFFEE CHINACHOPPER homefry murkytop SeDll APT40
2018-02-28 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Critical Attack Discovery and Intelligence Team
Chafer: Latest Attacks Reveal Heightened Ambitions
MimiKatz Remexi
2018-02-15 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
SamSam Ransomware Campaigns
MimiKatz reGeorg SamSam BOSS SPIDER
2017-12-20 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Adam Kozy
An End to “Smash-and-Grab” and a Move to More Targeted Approaches
CHINACHOPPER
2017-12-04 ⋅ RSA ⋅ Jack Wesley Riley
The Shadows of Ghosts Inside the response of a unique Carbanak intrusion
GOTROJ MimiKatz
2017-11-09 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Andy Greenberg
He Perfected a Password-Hacking Tool—Then the Russians Came Calling
MimiKatz
2017-11-03 ⋅ Github (5loyd) ⋅ 5loyd
Trochilus
Trochilus RAT
2017-09-15 ⋅ Fortinet ⋅ Xiaopeng Zhang
Deep Analysis of New Poison Ivy/PlugX Variant - Part II
Poison Ivy
2017-08-31 ⋅ NCC Group ⋅ Ahmed Zaki
Analysing a recent Poison Ivy sample
Poison Ivy
2017-08-23 ⋅ Fortinet ⋅ Xiaopeng Zhang
Deep Analysis of New Poison Ivy Variant
Poison Ivy
2017-05-31 ⋅ MITRE ⋅ MITRE ATT&CK
Sandworm Team
CyclopsBlink Exaramel BlackEnergy EternalPetya Exaramel GreyEnergy KillDisk MimiKatz Olympic Destroyer Sandworm
2017-05-31 ⋅ MITRE ⋅ MITRE ATT&CK
PittyTiger
Enfal Ghost RAT MimiKatz Poison Ivy APT24
2017-04-03 ⋅ JPCERT/CC ⋅ Shusei Tomonaga
RedLeaves - Malware Based on Open Source RAT
PlugX RedLeaves Trochilus RAT
2017-04-01 ⋅ PricewaterhouseCoopers ⋅ PricewaterhouseCoopers
Operation Cloud Hopper: Technical Annex
ChChes PlugX Quasar RAT RedLeaves Trochilus RAT
2017-02-27 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ A L Johnson
Shamoon: Multi-staged destructive attacks limited to specific targets
DistTrack MimiKatz Rocket Kitten
2016-11-22 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Jen Miller-Osborn, Robert Falcone, Tom Lancaster, Vicky Ray
Tropic Trooper Targets Taiwanese Government and Fossil Fuel Provider With Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy
2016-10-11 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Symantec Security Response
Odinaff: New Trojan used in high level financial attacks
Cobalt Strike KLRD MimiKatz Odinaff
2016-04-26 ⋅ Github (CyberMonitor) ⋅ Jason Jones
New Poison Ivy Activity Targeting Myanmar, Asian Countries
Poison Ivy
2016-04-22 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Brandon Levene, Jen Miller-Osborn, Micah Yates, Mike Scott
New Poison Ivy RAT Variant Targets Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists
Poison Ivy
2016-03-30 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
Ransomware Deployed by Adversary with Established Foothold
MimiKatz reGeorg SamSam BOSS SPIDER
2015-08-01 ⋅ Arbor Networks ⋅ ASERT Team
Uncovering the Seven Pointed Dagger
9002 RAT EvilGrab PlugX Trochilus RAT APT9
2015-02-06 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Global Threat Intel Report 2014
BlackPOS CryptoLocker Derusbi Elise Enfal EvilGrab Gameover P2P HttpBrowser Medusa Mirage Naikon NetTraveler pirpi PlugX Poison Ivy Sakula RAT Sinowal sykipot taidoor
2014-09-19 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Jen Miller-Osborn, Ryan Olson
Recent Watering Hole Attacks Attributed to APT Group “th3bug” Using Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy
2014-01-01 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ FireEye
Operation Quantum Entanglement
IsSpace NewCT Poison Ivy SysGet
2013-10-31 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Ned Moran, Thoufique Haq
Know Your Enemy: Tracking A Rapidly Evolving APT Actor
Bozok Poison Ivy TEMPER PANDA
2013-08-23 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Nart Villeneuve, Ned Moran, Thoufique Haq
Operation Molerats: Middle East Cyber Attacks Using Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy Molerats
2013-08-07 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Dennis Hanzlik, Ian Ahl, Tony Lee
Breaking Down the China Chopper Web Shell - Part I
CHINACHOPPER
2013-03-04 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Kyle Wilhoit
In-Depth Look: APT Attack Tools of the Trade
HTran
2011-08-03 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Joe Stewart
HTran and the Advanced Persistent Threat
HTran
2011-04-28 ⋅ Gentil Kiwi
Un observateur d’événements aveugle…
MimiKatz
2011-01-01 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Erica Eng, Gavin O'Gorman
The Nitro Attacks: Stealing Secrets from the Chemical Industry
Poison Ivy Nitro
2010-01-01 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Ero Carrera, Peter Silberman
State of Malware: Family Ties
Bredolab Conficker Cutwail KoobFace Oderoor Poison Ivy Rustock Sinowal Szribi Zeus
Credits: MISP Project