- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0640 · armored-likho
What it is
Armored Likho is an APT group targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. Their operations blend financially motivated campaigns with cyber-espionage, utilizing obfuscated, modular RATs and infostealers designed to evade dynamic analysis. They employ spear-phishing emails with deceptive themes to gain initial access, distributing malicious attachments that mimic legitimate content. Their toolkit includes BusySnake Stealer and AquilaRAT, with a focus on evolving TTPs and leveraging AI tools for payload generation.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- BI.ZONE
- Eagle Werewolf
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- CrossRat
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- POWERSOURCE
- POWERSTATS
- Power Loader
- PowerDuke
- PowerRAT
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de