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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 21-30 of 197 profiles
NameLocationObjectivesAliasesTools
BRONZE KEYSTONE iconChina
Espionage
APT17 (FireEye), Aurora Panda (CrowdStrike), DeputyDog (FireEye), Group 72 (Talos), Hidden Lynx (Symantec), Tailgater Team, TG-8153 (SCWX CTU)
9002, BlackCoffee, DeputyDog, Derusbi, Gh0stHTTPSDropper, HiKit, InternalCMD, PlugX, PoisonIvy, ZxShell
BRONZE MAYFAIR iconChina
Espionage
APT3 (FireEye), Gothic Panda (CrowdStrike), Pirpi, TG-0110 (SCWX CTU), UPSTeam
Cookiecutter, ctt, ctx, HUC Proxy Malware (Htran), Pirpi, PlugX, SplitVPN, UPS
BRONZE MEDLEY iconChina
Espionage
Calypso
Mimikatz, PlugX, Whitebird
BRONZE MOHAWK iconChina
Espionage
APT40 (Fireeye), GADOLINIUM (Microsoft), Gingham Typhoon (Microsoft), Kryptonite Panda (Crowdstrike), Leviathan (Proofpoint), Nanhaishu (F-Secure), Pickleworm (Symantec), Red Ladon (PWC), TA423 (Proofpoint), Temp.Jumper (Fireeye), Temp.Periscope (Fireeye)
AIRBREAK, BlackCoffee, China Chopper, Cobalt Strike, DadJoke, Derusbi, Donut, FUSIONBLAZE, GreenCrash, HOMEFRY, Metasploit, Meterpreter, MURKYTOP, Nanhaishu, Orz, ScanBox, SeDll
BRONZE OLIVE iconChina
Espionage
APT22 (Fireeye), Barista, Group 46 (Talos), Suckfly (Symantec)
Angryrebel, DestroyRAT, PlugX
BRONZE OVERBROOK iconChina
Espionage
Danti (Kaspersky), DragonOK (Palo Alto), Samurai Panda (CrowdStrike), Shallow Taurus (Palo Alto), Temp.DragonOK (FireEye)
Aveo, DDKONG, Godzilla Webshell, HelloBridge, IsSpace, NFLog Trojan, PLAINTEE, PlugX, Rambo
BRONZE PALACE iconChina
Espionage
APT15 (FireEye), BRONZE DAVENPORT (SCWX CTU), BRONZE IDLEWOOD (SCWX CTU), CTG-6119 (CTU), CTG-6119 (SCWX CTU), CTG-9246 (SCWX CTU), Ke3chang (FireEye), NICKEL (Microsoft), Nylon Typhoon (Microsoft), Playful Dragon, Vixen Panda (CrowdStrike)
BMW, BS2005, Enfal, Mirage, RoyalCLI, RoyalDNS
BRONZE PRESIDENT iconChina
Espionage
Aoqin Dragon (Sentinel Labs), Earth Preta (Trend Micro), Fireant (Symantec), HoneyMyte (Kaspersky), Mustang Panda (Crowdstrike), Red Delta (Recorded Future), Red Lich (PWC), RedDelta (recorded Future), Stately Taurus (Palo Alto), TA416 (ProofPoint), TA416 (Proofpoint), Temp.Hex (FireEye), Twill Typhoon (Microsoft), UNC6384 (Google)
BlueShell, China Chopper, Claimloader, Cobalt Strike, CoolClient, FDMTP Backdoor, HIUPAN, ORat, PlugX, PTSOCKET, PUBLOAD, RCSession, TinyNote, TONESHELL
BRONZE PRESIDENT iconChina
Espionage
Aoqin Dragon (Sentinel Labs), Earth Preta (Trend Micro), Fireant (Symantec), HoneyMyte (Kaspersky), Mustang Panda (Crowdstrike), Red Delta (Recorded Future), Red Lich (PWC), RedDelta (recorded Future), Stately Taurus (Palo Alto), TA416 (ProofPoint), TA416 (Proofpoint), Temp.Hex (FireEye), Twill Typhoon (Microsoft), UNC6384 (Google)
BlueShell, China Chopper, Claimloader, Cobalt Strike, CoolClient, FDMTP Backdoor, HIUPAN, ORat, PlugX, PTSOCKET, PUBLOAD, RCSession, TinyNote, TONESHELL
BRONZE RIVERSIDE iconChina
Espionage
APT10 (FireEye), CTG-5938 (SCWX CTU), CVNX (BAE Applied Intelligence), Hogfish (iDefense), MenuPass (Trend Micro), MirrorFace (ESET), POTASSIUM (Microsoft), Purple Typhoon (Microsoft), Purple Typhoon (Micrsoft), Red Apollo (PWC), Stone Panda (CrowdStrike)
ANEL, AsyncRAT, AysncRAT, ChChes, Cobalt Strike, FlowCloud, HiddenFace, LODEINFO, LodeInfo, PlugX, PoisonIvy, QuasarRAT, QuasarRAT Loader, RedLeaves