- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sponsor
- State-sponsored
- Motivation
- Espionage; Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2009–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0005 · 5 techniques
- Sources
- 12 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0022 · apt12
ChinaWhat it is
APT12 is a threat group that has been attributed to China. The group has targeted a variety of victims including but not limited to media outlets, high-tech companies, and multiple governments.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- CrowdStrike
- APT 12, Numbered Panda, Numbered Panda
- Mandiant
- APT 12
- Microsoft
- Hexagon Typhoon
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0005
- PwC
- Red Anubis
- Secureworks
- CTG-8223, TG-2754
- Talos and others
- Group 22, Group22
- Other names
- BeeBus, Bronze Globe, Calc Team, Crimson Iron, DNS-Calc, DNSCALC, DynCalc, HORDE, HYDROGEN, IXESHE, TG-2754 (tentative)
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
- ETDA / ThaiCERTChina
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)China
- MicrosoftChina
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Targets
- Countries
- Germany, Japan, Taiwan, United States
- Sectors
- Defense, Government, High-Tech, Media, Private sector, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- 3001
- AUMLIB
- China Chopper
- Etumbot
- Gh0st
- HTRAN
- Hightide
- IHEATE
- IXESHE
- Ixeshe
- Mswab
- RIPTIDE
- RapidStealer
- Riptide
- ShowNews
- ThreeByte
- Waterspout
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de