- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0685 · crescent-typhoon
ChinaWhat it is
Microsoft threat actor profile. Origin/Threat: China.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- CESIUM
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
- MicrosoftChina
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- China Chopper