- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- India(high confidence)
- Sponsor
- BellTroX InfoTech Services
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2013
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0286 · dark-basin
What it is
Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalists, elected and senior government officials, hedge funds, and multiple industries. Dark Basin extensively targeted American nonprofits, including organisations working on a campaign called #ExxonKnew, which asserted that ExxonMobil hid information about climate change for decades. We also identify Dark Basin as the group behind the phishing of organizations working on net neutrality advocacy, previously reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We link Dark Basin with high confidence to an Indian company, BellTroX InfoTech Services, and related entitie
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- Mercenary.Amanda
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
- Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Czech, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
- Sectors
- Financial, Government, Manufacturing, Media, NGOs, Non-profit organizations
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Dark DDoSeR
- MobileOrder
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de