- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Taiwan(medium confidence)
- Motivation
- Espionage
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0273 · blue-mushroom
What it is
According to 360 TIC the actor has carried out continuous cyber espionage activities since 2011 on key units and departments of the Chinese government, military industry, scientific research, and finance. The organization focuses on information related to the nuclear industry and scientific research. The targets were mainly concentrated in mainland China...[M]ore than 670 malware samples have been collected from the group, including more than 60 malicious plugins specifically for lateral movement; more than 40 C2 domain names and IPs related to the organization have also been discovered.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Qihoo 360
- APT-C-12
- Other names
- NuclearCrisis, Sapphire Mushroom
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Chinese and Russian sources
- Qihoo 360Taiwan
Targets
- Countries
- China
- Sectors
- Finance, Government, Military, Private sector, Scientific Research
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- China Chopper
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Nuclear RAT
- RTM