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Threat profiles

Explore the latest threat group definitions and profiles published by the 

Sophos® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) Research Team.

Showing 191-197 of 197 profiles
NameLocationObjectivesAliasesTools
NICKEL KIMBALL iconNorth Korea
Espionage
APT43 (Mandiant), ARCHIPELAGO (Google), Black Banshee (PWC), Crooked Pisces (Palo Alto), Emerald Sleet (Microsoft), ITG16 (IBM), Kimsuky (Kaspersky), Larva-24005 (AhnLab), Opal Sleet (Microsoft), Ruby Sleet (Microsoft), SharpTongue (Volexity), Sparking Pisces (Palo Alto), Springtail (Symantec), TA406 (Proofpoint), TA427 (Proofpoint), THALLIUM (Microsoft), UAT-5394 (Talos), Velvet Chollima (CrowdStrike)
BabyShark, FastFire, FastSpy, FireViewer, KimJongRAT, Kimsuky, KONNI, ReconShark
NICKEL TAPESTRY iconNorth Korea
Financial Gain
CL-STA-0237 (Palo Alto), CL-STA-0241 (Palo Alto), DPRK IT Workers, Famous Chollima (Crowdstrike), Jasper Sleet (Microsoft), PurpleDelta (Recorded Future), Storm-0287 (Microsoft), UNC5267 (Mandiant), Wagemole (Palo Alto)
PLATINUM COLONY iconUnited States
Espionage
Equation Group (Kaspersky)
DoubleFantasy, EquationDrug, EquationLaser, Fanny, GrayFish, TripleFantasy
PLATINUM TERMINAL iconUnited States
Espionage, Surveillance
APT-C-39 (Qihoo 360), Longhorn (Symantec), The Lamberts (Kaspersky), Vault7 (Wikileaks)
AfterMidnight, Assassin, Marble Framework
TIN WOODLAWN iconVietnam
Espionage, Surveillance
APT32 (FireEye), Cobalt Kitty, OceanLotus, WOODLAWN (SCWX CTU)
Cobalt Strike, Denis, Goopy, JEShell, KerrDown, Mimikatz, Ratsnif, Remy, Rizzo, RolandRAT
TUNGSTEN BRIDGE iconSouth Korea
Espionage
APT-C-06 (Qihoo 360), ATK52 (Thales), CTG-1948 (SCWX CTU), DarkHotel (Kaspersky), DUBNIUM (Microsoft), Fallout Team (Fireye), Shadow Crane (CrowdStrike), Zigzag Hail (Microsoft)
Nemim, Tapaoux
ZINC EMERSON iconIndia
Espionage
Confucius (Palo Alto), Dropping Elephant (Kaspersky), EHDevel (BitDefender), Manul (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Monsoon (Forcepoint), Operation Hangover (Norman), Patchwork (Cymmetria), TG-4410 (SCWX CTU), Viceroy Tiger (CrowdStrike)
Enlighten Infostealer, Hanove, Mac OS X KitM Spyware, Proyecto2, YTY Backdoor