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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 71-80 of 197 profiles
NameLocationObjectivesAliasesTools
COBALT TRINITY iconIran
Espionage
APT33 (Mandiant), Elfin (Symantec), HOLMIUM (Microsoft), MAGNALIUM (Dragos), Peach Sandstorm (Microsoft), Refined Kitten (CrowdStrike), TA451 (Proofpoint)
AutoCore, Cadlotcorg, Dello RAT, FalseFont, Imminent Monitor, KDALogger, Koadic, NanoCore, NetWire, PoshC2, POWERTON, Poylog, PupyRAT, Schoolbag
COBALT ULSTER iconIran
Espionage
Boggy Serpens (Palo Alto), Earth Vetala (Trend Micro), ENT-11 (NTTSH), ITG17 (IBM), Mango Sandstorm (Microsoft), MERCURY (Microsoft), MuddyWater (Palo Alto), Seedworm (Symantec), STAC 1171 (Sophos), Static Kitten (CrowdStrike), TA450 (Proofpoint), TEMP.Zagros (FireEye), UNC3313 (Mandiant), Yellow Nix (PwC)
AnyDesk, Canopy, CrackMapExec, CredNinja, Dindoor, Empire, FORELORD, Koadic, LaZagne, Ligolo, Metasploit, Mimikatz, MiniDump, MKL64, Mori, MuddyC2Go, MuddyC3, PhonyC2, Plink, PowerStats, PowGoop, RemoteUtilities, Revsocks, ScreenConnect, SimpleHelp, Small Sieve, Syncro, Tsundere, Venom Proxy, WMIExec
COPPER FIELDSTONE iconPakistan
Espionage
APT36 (FireEye), Earth Karkaddan (Trend Micro), Gorgon Group (Palo Alto), Green Havildar (PWC), Mythic Leopard (CrowdStrike), Operation C-Major (Trend Micro), Operation Transparent Tribe (Proofpoint), Pasty Draco (Palo Alto), ProjectM (Palo Alto), Storm-0156 (Microsoft)
CapraRAT, Crimson RAT, DarkComet, ElizaRAT, LuminosityLink, njRAT, ObliqueRAT, Peppy
Cybercrime
Financial Gain, Malware Distribution Services
Smoky Spider (CrowdStrike)
Smoke Loader
Cybercrime
Extortion, Financial Gain
Dark Angels
Advanced IP Scanner, FileShredder, FileZilla, Godzilla webshell, Neo-Georg webshell, WinSCP
Cybercrime
Financial Gain
Aurora
Cybercrime
Financial Gain
BadPotato, Cobalt Strike, GodPotato, Godzilla Webshell, HTran, SharpToken
Cybercrime
Financial Gain
Trigona Team
Advanced Port Scanner, AnyDesk, Atera, Cobalt Strike, dControl, Filezilla, LogMeIn, Mimikatz, Netscan, PsExec, ScreenConnect, Splashtop, TeamViewer, Trigona
Cybercrime
Botnet Operations, Financial Gain
ITG23 (IBM), Periwinkle Tempest (Microsoft), Wizard Spider (CrowdStrike)
BazarLoader, Buer loader, Bumblebee, Dyre, Team9, Trickbot
Cybercrime
Espionage, Financial Gain
Earth Kapre (Trend Micro), Red Wolf (BI.ZONE), RedCurl (Group-IB)
RedLoader