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GRIMBOLT


According to Mandiant, GRIMBOLT is a C#-written foothold backdoor compiled using native ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation and packed with UPX. It provides a remote shell capability and uses the same command and control as previously deployed BRICKSTORM payload. It's unclear if the threat actor's replacement of BRICKSTORM with GRIMBOLT was part of a pre-planned life cycle iteration by the threat actor or a reaction to incident response.

References
2026-02-17GoogleDaniel Sislo, Fernando Tomlinson, John Scarbrough, Jr., Nick Harbour, PETER UKHANOV, Rich Reece
From BRICKSTORM to GRIMBOLT: UNC6201 Exploiting a Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Zero-Day
BRICKSTORM GRIMBOLT SLAYSTYLE

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