- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2018
- Sources
- 5 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0383 · blackwood
What it is
Blackwood is a China-aligned APT group that has been active since at least 2018. They primarily engage in cyberespionage operations targeting individuals and companies in China, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Blackwood utilizes sophisticated techniques such as adversary-in-the-middle attacks to deliver their custom implant, NSPX30, through updates of legitimate software. They also have the capability to hide the location of their command and control servers by intercepting traffic generated by the implant.
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
Targets
- Countries
- China, Japan, United Kingdom
- Sectors
- Manufacturing
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- BLACKCOFFEE
- BlackEnergy
- BlackHole
- BlackNix
- Blackshades
- China Chopper
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- NSPX30
- UNITEDRAKE
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de