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Tonto Team  (Back to overview)

aka: BRONZE HUNTLEY, COPPER, CactusPete, Earth Akhlut, G0131, KARMA PANDA, LONE CASTLE, PLA Unit 65017, Red Beifang, TAG-74

Tonto Team is a Chinese-speaking APT group that has been active since at least 2013. They primarily target military, diplomatic, and infrastructure organizations in Asia and Eastern Europe. The group has been observed using various malware, including the Bisonal RAT and ShadowPad. They employ spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments as their preferred method of distribution.

Associated Families
win.8t_dropper win.calmthorn win.dexbia win.korlia win.quickmute win.typehash win.shadowpad
References
2026-08-19 ⋅ Bitdefender ⋅ Martin Zugec
SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia
BloodAlchemy ShadowPad SNAPPYBEE SilkParasite
2026-07-24 ⋅ Google ⋅ Google Threat Intelligence Group
Updated Cyber Threat Actor Naming System
APT15 APT20 APT27 APT28 APT29 APT30 APT31 APT33 APT35 APT37 APT39 APT40 APT41 APT42 APT45 APT5 BlackTech Callisto Conference Crew FIN11 FIN6 FIN7 FIN8 MuddyWater MUSTANG PANDA Naikon OilRig Sandworm TEMP.Hermit Tick Tonto Team Turla UAC-0020 UNC1069 UNC1088 UNC2814
2026-04-30 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi, Lucas Silva
Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia
FINALDRAFT ShadowPad VShell Shadow-Earth-053
2026-04-09 ⋅ ⋅ F6 ⋅ F6
Eastern Signature: Investigating a Cyberattack by an Asian Threat Group
ShadowPad
2026-01-20 ⋅ ⋅ Rostelecom-Solar ⋅ Pandora Hive Mind
ShadowRelay – a unique backdoor in the public sector
ShadowPad SNAPPYBEE
2025-10-22 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi, Joseph C Chen, Lenart Bermejo, Leon M Chang, Vickie Su
The Rise of Collaborative Tactics Among China-aligned Cyber Espionage Campaigns
Cobalt Strike DracuLoader ShadowPad Earth Naga
2025-06-09 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ Aleksandar Milenkoski, Tom Hegel
Follow the Smoke | China-nexus Threat Actors Hammer At the Doors of Top Tier Targets
GOREshell Nimbo-C2 ShadowPad
2025-04-08 ⋅ Hunt.io ⋅ Hunt.io
State-Sponsored Tactics: How Gamaredon and ShadowPad Operate and Rotate Their Infrastructure
ShadowPad
2025-03-20 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Matthieu Faou
Operation FishMedley
ShadowPad SodaMaster Spyder Earth Lusca FishMedley
2025-02-20 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
Updated Shadowpad Malware Leads to Ransomware Deployment
EvilExtractor PlugX ShadowPad Teleboyi
2025-02-20 ⋅ Orange Cyberdefense ⋅ Alexis Bonnefoi, Marine PICHON
Meet NailaoLocker: a ransomware distributed in Europe by ShadowPad and PlugX backdoors
NailaoLocker PlugX ShadowPad
2025-02-20 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
Updated Shadowpad Malware Leads to Ransomware Deployment
EvilExtractor NailaoLocker PlugX ShadowPad
2025-02-18 ⋅ Orange Cyberdefense ⋅ Alexis Bonnefoi, Marine PICHON
IOCs Green Nailao campaign (NailaoLocker, ShadowPad)
NailaoLocker PlugX ShadowPad
2025-01-29 ⋅ Google ⋅ Conor Quigley, Luke Jenkins, Nino Isakovic
ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug's Obfuscator
POISONPLUG ShadowPad SNAPPYBEE
2025-01-21 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Leon Chang, Theo Chen
Game of Emperor: Unveiling Long Term Earth Estries Cyber Intrusions
Cobalt Strike HemiGate ShadowPad SNAPPYBEE SparrowDoor UNC4841
2024-08-01 ⋅ Cisco ⋅ Ashley Shen, Joey Chen, Vitor Ventura
APT41 likely compromised Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute with ShadowPad and Cobalt Strike
Cobalt Strike ShadowPad
2024-05-23 ⋅ ITOCHU ⋅ ITOCHU Cyber & Intelligence Inc.
Malware Transmutation! - Unveiling the Hidden Traces of BloodAlchemy
BloodAlchemy ShadowPad
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
2024-03-05 ⋅ Reliaquest ⋅ RELIAQUEST THREAT RESEARCH TEAM
Anxun and Chinese APT Activity
ShadowPad
2024-03-01 ⋅ HarfangLab ⋅ HarfangLab CTR
A Comprehensive Analysis of i-SOON’s Commercial Offering
ShadowPad Winnti
2024-02-21 ⋅ YouTube (SentinelOne) ⋅ Kris McConkey
LABSCon23 Replay | Chasing Shadows | The rise of a prolific espionage actor
9002 RAT PlugX ShadowPad Spyder Earth Lusca
2024-02-09 ⋅ Hunt.io ⋅ Michael R
Tracking ShadowPad Infrastructure Via Non-Standard Certificates
ShadowPad
2024-01-09 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group
2023 Adversary Infrastructure Report
AsyncRAT Cobalt Strike Emotet PlugX ShadowPad
2023-11-07 ⋅ Youtube (Virus Bulletin) ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
Possible supply chain attack targeting South Asian government delivers Shadowpad
ShadowPad
2023-10-04 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
Possible supply chain attack targeting Pakistan government delivers ShadowPad
ShadowPad
2023-10-04 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
Possible supply chain attack targeting Pakistan government delivers Shadowpad (Slides)
ShadowPad
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
2023-09-19 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group
Multi-year Chinese APT Campaign Targets South Korean Academic, Government, and Political Entities
Korlia Tonto Team
2023-09-12 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Redfly: Espionage Actors Continue to Target Critical Infrastructure
ShadowPad Redfly
2023-08-07 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group
RedHotel: A Prolific, Chinese State-Sponsored Group Operating at a Global Scale
Winnti Brute Ratel C4 Cobalt Strike FunnySwitch PlugX ShadowPad Spyder Earth Lusca
2023-07-14 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Daniel Lunghi
Possible Supply-Chain Attack Targeting Pakistani Government Delivers Shadowpad
ShadowPad DriftingCloud Tonto Team
2023-05-15 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
Lancefly: Group Uses Custom Backdoor to Target Orgs in Government, Aviation, Other Sectors
Merdoor PlugX ShadowPad ZXShell Lancefly
2023-04-05 ⋅ Medium Ilandu ⋅ Ilan Duhin
PortDoor - APT Backdoor analysis
ACBackdoor 8.t Dropper PortDoor
2023-03-07 ⋅ Check Point Research ⋅ Check Point Research
Pandas with a Soul: Chinese Espionage Attacks Against Southeast Asian Government Entities
5.t Downloader 8.t Dropper Soul SoulSearcher
2023-02-07 ⋅ MalGamy ⋅ MalGamy
The Approach of TA413 for Tibetan Targets
8.t Dropper LOWZERO
2023-02-02 ⋅ Elastic ⋅ Andrew Pease, Cyril François, Devon Kerr, Remco Sprooten, Salim Bitam, Seth Goodwin
Update to the REF2924 intrusion set and related campaigns
DoorMe ShadowPad SiestaGraph
2023-01-14 ⋅ YouTube (CODE BLUE) ⋅ Takahiro Haruyama
[CB22]Tracking the Entire Iceberg - Long-term APT Malware C2 Protocol Emulation and Scanning
ShadowPad Winnti
2022-10-27 ⋅ vmware ⋅ Takahiro Haruyama
Threat Analysis: Active C2 Discovery Using Protocol Emulation Part3 (ShadowPad)
ShadowPad
2022-10-25 ⋅ VMware Threat Analysis Unit ⋅ Takahiro Haruyama
Tracking the entire iceberg: long-term APT malware C2 protocol emulation and scanning
ShadowPad Winnti
2022-09-30 ⋅ NCC Group ⋅ Michael Mullen, Nikolaos Pantazopoulos, William Backhouse
A glimpse into the shadowy realm of a Chinese APT: detailed analysis of a ShadowPad intrusion
ShadowPad
2022-09-26 ⋅ Youtube (Virus Bulletin) ⋅ Takahiro Haruyama
Tracking the entire iceberg long term APT malware C2 protocol emulation and scanning
ShadowPad Winnti
2022-09-22 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
Chinese State-Sponsored Group TA413 Adopts New Capabilities in Pursuit of Tibetan Targets
8.t Dropper LOWZERO
2022-09-19 ⋅ Virus Bulletin ⋅ Takahiro Haruyama
Tracking the entire iceberg - long-term APT malware C2 protocol emulation and scanning
ShadowPad Winnti
2022-09-13 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
New Wave of Espionage Activity Targets Asian Governments
MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT ShadowPad Trochilus RAT
2022-09-06 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Thibaut Passilly
Worok: The big picture
MimiKatz PNGLoad reGeorg ShadowPad Worok
2022-07-07 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ Tom Hegel
Targets of Interest - Russian Organizations Increasingly Under Attack By Chinese APTs
8.t Dropper Korlia Tonto Team
2022-07-01 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ RiskIQ
ToddyCat: A Guided Journey through the Attacker's Infrastructure
ShadowPad ToddyCat
2022-06-27 ⋅ Kaspersky ICS CERT ⋅ Artem Snegirev, Kirill Kruglov
Attacks on industrial control systems using ShadowPad
Cobalt Strike PlugX ShadowPad
2022-06-22 ⋅ ⋅ Cert-UA ⋅ Cert-UA
Cyberattacks by China-associated groups against Russian scientific and technical enterprises and government agencies (CERT-UA#4860)
QUICKMUTE
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
2022-05-12 ⋅ TEAMT5 ⋅ Leon Chang, Silvia Yeh
The Next Gen PlugX/ShadowPad? A Dive into the Emerging China-Nexus Modular Trojan, Pangolin8RAT (slides)
KEYPLUG Cobalt Strike CROSSWALK FunnySwitch PlugX ShadowPad Winnti SLIME29 TianWu
2022-05-02 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ Amitai Ben Shushan Ehrlich, Joey Chen
Moshen Dragon’s Triad-and-Error Approach | Abusing Security Software to Sideload PlugX and ShadowPad
PlugX ShadowPad Moshen Dragon
2022-04-08 ⋅ The Register ⋅ Laura Dobberstein
China accused of cyberattacks on Indian power grid
ShadowPad
2022-04-06 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group
Continued Targeting of Indian Power Grid Assets by Chinese State-Sponsored Activity Group
ShadowPad
2022-04-06 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
Continued Targeting of Indian Power Grid Assets by Chinese State-Sponsored Activity Group (TAG-38)
ShadowPad
2022-02-23 ⋅ Dragos ⋅ Dragos
2021 ICS OT Cybersecurity Year In Review
ShadowPad
2022-02-15 ⋅ The Hacker News ⋅ Ravie Lakshmanan
Researchers Link ShadowPad Malware Attacks to Chinese Ministry and PLA
ShadowPad
2022-02-15 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
ShadowPad Malware Analysis
ShadowPad
2022-01-17 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Cedric Pernet, Daniel Lunghi, Gloria Chen, Jaromír Hořejší, Joseph Chen, Kenney Lu
Delving Deep: An Analysis of Earth Lusca’s Operations
BIOPASS Cobalt Strike FunnySwitch JuicyPotato ShadowPad Winnti Earth Lusca
2021-12-17 ⋅ FBI ⋅ FBI
AC-000159-MW: APT Actors Exploiting Newly-Identified Zero Day in ManageEngine Desktop Central (CVE-2021-44515)
ShadowPad
2021-12-16 ⋅ TEAMT5 ⋅ Aragorn Tseng, Charles Li, Peter Syu, Tom Lai
Winnti is Coming - Evolution after Prosecution
Cobalt Strike FishMaster FunnySwitch HIGHNOON ShadowPad Spyder
2021-12-08 ⋅ PWC UK ⋅ Adam Prescott
Chasing Shadows: A deep dive into the latest obfuscation methods being used by ShadowPad
ShadowPad Earth Lusca
2021-11-19 ⋅ insomniacs(Medium) ⋅ Asuna Amawaka
It’s a BEE! It’s a… no, it’s ShadowPad.
ShadowPad
2021-11-04 ⋅ Youtube (Virus Bulletin) ⋅ Joey Chen, Yi-Jhen Hsieh
ShadowPad: the masterpiece of privately sold malware in Chinese espionage
PlugX ShadowPad
2021-10-26 ⋅ Kaspersky ⋅ Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT
APT attacks on industrial organizations in H1 2021
8.t Dropper AllaKore AsyncRAT GoldMax LimeRAT NjRAT NoxPlayer Raindrop ReverseRAT ShadowPad Zebrocy
2021-09-01 ⋅ YouTube (Hack In The Box Security Conference) ⋅ Joey Chen, Yi-Jhen Hsieh
SHADOWPAD: Chinese Espionage Malware-as-a-Service
PlugX ShadowPad
2021-08-23 ⋅ SentinelOne ⋅ Joey Chen, Yi-Jhen Hsieh
ShadowPad: the Masterpiece of Privately Sold Malware in Chinese Espionage
PlugX ShadowPad
2021-08-19 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ Joey Chen, Yi-Jhen Hsieh
ShadowPad | A Masterpiece of Privately Sold Malware in Chinese Espionage
ShadowPad
2021-08-12 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ SentinelLabs
ShadowPad: A Masterpiece of Privately Sold Malware in Chinese Espionage
ShadowPad Earth Lusca
2021-07-08 ⋅ ⋅ PTSecurity ⋅ Denis Kuvshinov
How winnti APT grouping works
Korlia ShadowPad Winnti
2021-07-08 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
Chinese State-Sponsored Activity Group TAG-22 Targets Nepal, the Philippines, and Taiwan Using Winnti and Other Tooling
ShadowPad Spyder Winnti
2021-07-08 ⋅ ⋅ YouTube (PT Product Update) ⋅ Denis Kuvshinov
How winnti APT grouping works
Korlia ShadowPad Winnti
2021-04-29 ⋅ NTT ⋅ Threat Detection NTT Ltd.
The Operations of Winnti group
Cobalt Strike ShadowPad Spyder Winnti Earth Lusca
2021-03-29 ⋅ The Record ⋅ Catalin Cimpanu
RedEcho group parks domains after public exposure
PlugX ShadowPad RedEcho
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
2021-02-28 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
China-Linked Group RedEcho Targets the Indian Power Sector Amid Heightened Border Tensions
Icefog PlugX ShadowPad
2021-02-28 ⋅ PWC UK ⋅ PWC UK
Cyber Threats 2020: A Year in Retrospect
elf.wellmess FlowerPower PowGoop 8.t Dropper Agent.BTZ Agent Tesla Appleseed Ave Maria Bankshot BazarBackdoor BLINDINGCAN Chinoxy Conti Cotx RAT Crimson RAT DUSTMAN Emotet FriedEx FunnyDream Hakbit Mailto Maze METALJACK Nefilim Oblique RAT Pay2Key PlugX QakBot REvil Ryuk StoneDrill StrongPity SUNBURST SUPERNOVA TrickBot TurlaRPC Turla SilentMoon WastedLocker WellMess Winnti ZeroCleare APT10 APT23 APT27 APT31 APT41 BlackTech BRONZE EDGEWOOD Inception Framework MUSTANG PANDA Red Charon Red Nue Sea Turtle Tonto Team
2021-02-28 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group®
China-linked Group RedEcho Targets the Indian Power Sector Amid Heightened Border Tensions
PlugX ShadowPad RedEcho
2021-02-23 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike
2021 Global Threat Report
RansomEXX Amadey Anchor Avaddon BazarBackdoor Clop Cobalt Strike Conti Cutwail DanaBot DarkSide DoppelPaymer Dridex Egregor Emotet Hakbit IcedID JSOutProx KerrDown LockBit Mailto Maze MedusaLocker Mespinoza Mount Locker NedDnLoader Nemty Pay2Key PlugX Pushdo PwndLocker PyXie QakBot Quasar RAT RagnarLocker Ragnarok RansomEXX REvil Ryuk Sekhmet ShadowPad SmokeLoader Snake SUNBURST SunCrypt TEARDROP TrickBot WastedLocker Winnti Zloader Evilnum OUTLAW SPIDER RIDDLE SPIDER SOLAR SPIDER VIKING SPIDER
2021-02-05 ⋅ Twitter (@8th_grey_owl) ⋅ 8thGreyOwl
Tweet on CALMTHORN, used by Tonto Team
CALMTHORN
2021-01-14 ⋅ PTSecurity ⋅ PT ESC Threat Intelligence
Higaisa or Winnti? APT41 backdoors, old and new
Cobalt Strike CROSSWALK FunnySwitch PlugX ShadowPad
2021-01-13 ⋅ AlienVault ⋅ Tom Hegel
A Global Perspective of the SideWinder APT
8.t Dropper Koadic SideWinder
2021-01-04 ⋅ nao_sec blog ⋅ nao_sec
Royal Road! Re:Dive
8.t Dropper Chinoxy FlowCloud FunnyDream Lookback
2020-12-10 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Mathieu Tartare
Operation StealthyTrident: corporate software under attack
HyperBro PlugX ShadowPad Tmanger
2020-11-23 ⋅ Youtube (OWASP DevSlop) ⋅ Negar Shabab, Noushin Shabab
Compromised Compilers - A new perspective of supply chain cyber attacks
ShadowPad
2020-11-03 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ GReAT
APT trends report Q3 2020
WellMail EVILNUM Janicab Poet RAT AsyncRAT Ave Maria Cobalt Strike Crimson RAT CROSSWALK Dtrack LODEINFO MoriAgent Okrum PlugX POISONPLUG Rover ShadowPad SoreFang Winnti
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
2020-10-27 ⋅ Dr.Web ⋅ Dr.Web
Study of the ShadowPad APT backdoor and its relation to PlugX
Ghost RAT PlugX ShadowPad
2020-10-03 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Cedric Pernet, Daniel Lunghi, Jaromír Hořejší, Kazuki Fujisawa
Earth Akhlut: Exploring the Tools, Tactics, and Procedures of an Advanced Threat Actor Operating a Large Infrastructure
Dexbia TypeHash
2020-09-18 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Threat Hunter Team
APT41: Indictments Put Chinese Espionage Group in the Spotlight
CROSSWALK PlugX POISONPLUG ShadowPad Winnti
2020-09-16 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ Jon Gross
RiskIQ: Adventures in Cookie Land - Part 2
8.t Dropper Chinoxy Poison Ivy
2020-09-08 ⋅ PTSecurity ⋅ PTSecurity
ShadowPad: new activity from the Winnti group
CCleaner Backdoor Korlia ShadowPad TypeHash
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
2020-08-19 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ Cory Kennedy, Jon Gross
RiskIQ Adventures in Cookie Land - Part 1
8.t Dropper Chinoxy
2020-08-13 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Konstantin Zykov
CactusPete APT group’s updated Bisonal backdoor
Korlia Tonto Team
2020-07-29 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ GReAT
APT trends report Q2 2020
PhantomLance Dacls Penquin Turla elf.wellmess AppleJeus Dacls AcidBox Cobalt Strike Dacls EternalPetya Godlike12 Olympic Destroyer PlugX shadowhammer ShadowPad Sinowal VHD Ransomware Volgmer WellMess X-Agent XTunnel
2020-07-14 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Falcon OverWatch Team
Manufacturing Industry in the Adversaries’ Crosshairs
ShadowPad Snake
2020-06-25 ⋅ Dr.Web ⋅ Dr.Web
BackDoor.ShadowPad.1
ShadowPad
2020-06-03 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Giampaolo Dedola, GReAT, Mark Lechtik
Cycldek: Bridging the (air) gap
8.t Dropper NewCore RAT PlugX USBCulprit GOBLIN PANDA Hellsing
2020-03-21 ⋅ MalwareLab.pl ⋅ Maciej Kotowicz
On the Royal Road
8.t Dropper
2020-03-20 ⋅ Medium Sebdraven ⋅ Sébastien Larinier
New version of chinoxy backdoor using COVID19 alerts document lure
8.t Dropper Chinoxy
2020-03-12 ⋅ Check Point Research ⋅ Check Point
Vicious Panda: The COVID Campaign
8.t Dropper Vicious Panda
2020-03-12 ⋅ Check Point ⋅ Check Point Research
Vicious Panda: The COVID Campaign
8.t Dropper BYEBY Enfal Korlia Poison Ivy
2020-03-11 ⋅ Virus Bulletin ⋅ Ghareeb Saad, Michael Raggi
Attribution is in the object: using RTF object dimensions to track APT phishing weaponizers
8.t Dropper
2020-03-05 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Paul Rascagnères, Vitor Ventura, Warren Mercer
Bisonal: 10 years of play
Korlia
2020-03-05 ⋅ ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ AhnLab ASEC Analysis Team
신천지 비상연락처 위장한 Bisonal 악성코드 유포 중
Korlia
2020-03-04 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike
2020 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report
MESSAGETAP More_eggs 8.t Dropper Anchor BabyShark BadNews Clop Cobalt Strike CobInt Cobra Carbon System Cutwail DanaBot Dharma DoppelDridex DoppelPaymer Dridex Emotet FlawedAmmyy FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 IcedID ISFB KerrDown LightNeuron LockerGoga Maze MECHANICAL Necurs Nokki Outlook Backdoor Phobos Predator The Thief QakBot REvil RobinHood Ryuk SDBbot Skipper SmokeLoader TerraRecon TerraStealer TerraTV TinyLoader TrickBot Vidar Winnti ANTHROPOID SPIDER APT23 APT31 APT39 APT40 BlackTech BuhTrap Charming Kitten CLOCKWORK SPIDER DOPPEL SPIDER FIN7 Gamaredon Group GOBLIN PANDA MONTY SPIDER MUSTANG PANDA NARWHAL SPIDER NOCTURNAL SPIDER PINCHY SPIDER SALTY SPIDER SCULLY SPIDER SMOKY SPIDER Thrip VENOM SPIDER VICEROY TIGER
2020-03-03 ⋅ PWC UK ⋅ PWC UK
Cyber Threats 2019:A Year in Retrospect
KevDroid MESSAGETAP magecart AndroMut Cobalt Strike CobInt Crimson RAT DNSpionage Dridex Dtrack Emotet FlawedAmmyy FlawedGrace FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 GlobeImposter Grateful POS ISFB Kazuar LockerGoga Nokki QakBot Ramnit REvil Rifdoor RokRAT Ryuk shadowhammer ShadowPad Shifu Skipper StoneDrill Stuxnet TrickBot Winnti ZeroCleare APT41 MUSTANG PANDA Sea Turtle
2020-01-31 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Mathieu Tartare
Winnti Group targeting universities in Hong Kong
ShadowPad Winnti
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
2020-01-17 ⋅ ⋅ NTT Security ⋅ Takai Hajime
Operation Bitter Biscuit
Korlia
2020-01-01 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ SecureWorks
BRONZE HUNTLEY
Korlia
2019-11-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Kelli Vanderlee, Nalani Fraser
Achievement Unlocked: Chinese Cyber Espionage Evolves to Support Higher Level Missions
APT1 APT10 APT2 APT26 APT3 APT30 APT41 Naikon Tonto Team
2019-10-07 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé, Mathieu Tartare
CONNECTING THE DOTS: Exposing the arsenal and methods of the Winnti Group
LOWKEY shadowhammer ShadowPad
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
2019-09-22 ⋅ Check Point Research ⋅ Check Point Research
Rancor: The Year of The Phish
8.t Dropper Cobalt Strike
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
2019-05-09 ⋅ Youtube (FireEye Korea) ⋅ Ryan Whelan
Over the Horizon: Innovating to confront evolving cyber threats
CALMTHORN
2019-04-25 ⋅ ⋅ DATANET ⋅ Kim Seon-ae
Chinese-based hackers attack domestic energy institutions
CALMTHORN Ghost RAT
2019-04-23 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ AMR, GReAT
Operation ShadowHammer: a high-profile supply chain attack
shadowhammer ShadowPad
2019-04-22 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Mohamad Mokbel
C/C++ Runtime Library Code Tampering in Supply Chain
shadowhammer ShadowPad Winnti
2019-03-22 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ AhnLab ASEC Analysis Team
ASEC REPORT VOL.93 Q4 2018
Korlia
2019-03-05 ⋅ Accenture ⋅ Accenture
MUDCARP's Focus on Submarine Technologies
8.t Dropper APT40
2019-01-03 ⋅ ⋅ m4n0w4r
Another malicious document with CVE-2017–11882
8.t Dropper
2018-11-03 ⋅ ⋅ m4n0w4r
Là 1937CN hay OceanLotus hay Lazarus …
8.t Dropper
2018-07-31 ⋅ Medium Sebdraven ⋅ Sébastien Larinier
Malicious document targets Vietnamese officials
8.t Dropper
2018-07-31 ⋅ Medium Sebdraven ⋅ Sébastien Larinier
Malicious document targets Vietnamese officials
8.t Dropper PlugX 1937CN
2018-07-31 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Kaoru Hayashi, Vicky Ray
Bisonal Malware Used in Attacks Against Russia and South Korea
Korlia
2018-05-15 ⋅ BSides Detroit ⋅ Keven Murphy, Stefano Maccaglia
IR in Heterogeneous Environment
Korlia Poison Ivy
2017-08-15 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ GReAT
ShadowPad in corporate networks
ShadowPad
2017-04-21 ⋅ The Wall Street Journal ⋅ Jonathan Cheng, Josh Chin
China Hacked South Korea Over Missile Defense, U.S. Firm Says
Tonto Team
2017-04-21 ⋅ The Wall Street Journal ⋅ Jonathan Cheng, Josh Chin
China Hacked South Korea Over Missile Defense, U.S. Firm Says
Tonto Team
2017-04-21 ⋅ Ars Technica ⋅ Sean Gallagher
Researchers claim China trying to hack South Korea missile defense efforts
Tonto Team
2014-11-25 ⋅ Adventures in Security ⋅ Nick Hoffman
Curious Korlia
Korlia
2014-02-24 ⋅ RSA Conference ⋅ Dmitri Alperovitch
The Art of Attribution Identifying and Pursuing your Cyber Adversaries
ANDROMEDA SPIDER APT19 DEXTOROUS SPIDER Ghost Jackal Silent Chollima SINGING SPIDER Tonto Team TOXIC PANDA UNION SPIDER
2013-01-01 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Alex Lanstein
APTs By The Dozen: Dissecting Advanced Attacks
Korlia
Credits: MISP Project