DPRK financially-motivated cluster targeting cryptocurrency.
Russian military intelligence cyber-espionage group attributed to GRU Unit 26165.
Russian SVR cyber-espionage group; perpetrators of the SolarWinds supply-chain compromise.
Dual-purpose Chinese threat group conducting espionage and financially motivated operations.
GRU Unit 74455 destructive-attack and disinformation group.
APT9 (also known as NIGHTSHADE PANDA and Red Pegasus) is a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor engaged in cyber espionage operations primarily targeting organizations in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and across Europe and Southeast Asia. The group focuses on intellectual property and competitive data theft, with a historically strong emphasis on the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare, and aerospace sectors. APT9 employs a range of intrusion techniques including spearphishing, abuse of valid accounts, exploitation of trusted inter-organizational relationships, and a diverse malware toolkit comprising both publicly available and custom backdoors shared across multiple Chinese APT groups.
DEV-0537, widely known as Lapsus$, is an extortion-focused cybercriminal collective active since 2021, composed of members spanning multiple countries and notable for including younger individuals among its ranks. The group primarily pursues financial gain and notoriety by compromising high-profile organizations through social engineering, credential theft, and insider recruitment rather than traditional malware-heavy intrusion methods. Their targeting is broad and opportunistic, spanning sectors such as technology, telecommunications, government, finance, and retail across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
DPRK cluster engaged in IT-worker fraud and ransomware development.
Native-English-speaking eCrime collective known for social-engineering helpdesks.
Wizard Spider is a financially motivated Russian cybercriminal group active since 2016, widely known for operating the TrickBot banking trojan and associated malware ecosystem including BazarBackdoor, Ryuk, and Conti ransomware. The group conducts sophisticated, multi-stage intrusions typically beginning with TrickBot or BazarBackdoor infections that facilitate lateral movement and ultimately ransomware deployment against high-value targets. Their operations span a broad range of sectors globally—including finance, government, healthcare, education, and critical infrastructure—across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, with attacks driven primarily by large ransom demands and financial extortion.