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
MITRE ATT&CK Group crosswalk
References
- https://blog.rapid7.com/2013/06/07/keyboy-targeted-attacks-against-vietnam-and-india/
- http://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/rhetoric-foreshadows-cyber-activity-in-the-south-china-sea/
- https://go.crowdstrike.com/rs/281-OBQ-266/images/Report2020CrowdStrikeGlobalThreatReport.pdf
- http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/11/unit42-tropic-trooper-targets-taiwanese-government-and-fossil-fuel-provider-with-poison-ivy/
- http://www.trendmicro.com/cloud-content/us/pdfs/security-intelligence/white-papers/wp-operation-tropic-trooper.pdf
- https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/tropic-trooper-new-strategy/
- https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-tropic-trooper-targets-taiwanese-government-and-fossil-fuel-provider-with-poison-ivy/
- https://blog.lookout.com/titan-mobile-threat
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.