CNconfidence: 50G0081

APT23APT23

Also known as: PIRATE PANDA · KeyBoy · Tropic Trooper · BRONZE HOBART · G0081 · Red Orthrus · Earth Centaur · APT23

Origin
CN
Known aliases
8
Attribution
50

Profile

TrendMicro described Tropic Trooper in a 2015 report as: 'Taiwan and the Philippines have become the targets of an ongoing campaign called Operation TropicTrooper. Active since 2012, the attackers behind the campaign haveset their sights on the Taiwanese government as well as a number of companies in the heavy industry. The same campaign has also targeted key Philippine military agencies.'

Aliases· 8

PIRATE PANDAKeyBoyTropic TrooperBRONZE HOBARTRed OrthrusEarth CentaurAPT23
G0081

MITRE ATT&CK Group crosswalk

G0081

References

  1. https://blog.rapid7.com/2013/06/07/keyboy-targeted-attacks-against-vietnam-and-india/
  2. http://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/rhetoric-foreshadows-cyber-activity-in-the-south-china-sea/
  3. https://go.crowdstrike.com/rs/281-OBQ-266/images/Report2020CrowdStrikeGlobalThreatReport.pdf
  4. http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/11/unit42-tropic-trooper-targets-taiwanese-government-and-fossil-fuel-provider-with-poison-ivy/
  5. http://www.trendmicro.com/cloud-content/us/pdfs/security-intelligence/white-papers/wp-operation-tropic-trooper.pdf
  6. https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/tropic-trooper-new-strategy/
  7. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-tropic-trooper-targets-taiwanese-government-and-fossil-fuel-provider-with-poison-ivy/
  8. https://blog.lookout.com/titan-mobile-threat

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

Actor
APT21
Actor
APT24
Actor
APT27
Actor
APT37
Group
Tropic Trooper
Actor
APT12
Sourced from MISP-Galaxy Threat Actor cluster. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.