- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(medium confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2017–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0135 · 15 techniques
- Sources
- 9 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0077 · backdoordiplomacy
ChinaWhat it is
BackdoorDiplomacy is a cyber espionage threat group that has been active since at least 2017. BackdoorDiplomacy has targeted Ministries of Foreign Affairs and telecommunication companies in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0135
- Other names
- BackDip, CloudComputating, Quarian
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
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Targets
- Countries
- Albania, Bhutan, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Iran, Libya, Namibia, Nigeria, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan
- Sectors
- Government, Telecomms, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- China Chopper
- Follina
- Mimikatz
- NBTscan
- Quarian
- QuasarRAT
- Turian
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de