GINC-APT-0300 · Criminal

Fxmsp

Also ATK 134, ATK134, TAG-CR17.

Category
Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
Origin
Kazakhstan(high confidence)
Motivation
Financial gain
Seen
2016
Sources
6 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0300 · fxmsp

What it is

Throughout 2017 and 2018, Fxmsp established a network of trusted proxy resellers to promote their breaches on the criminal underground. Some of the known Fxmsp TTPs included accessing network environments via externally available remote desktop protocol (RDP) servers and exposed active directory. Most recently, the actor claimed to have developed a credential-stealing botnet capable of infecting high-profile targets in order to exfiltrate sensitive usernames and passwords. Fxmsp has claimed that developing this botnet and improving its capabilities for stealing information from secured systems is their main goal.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

Thales
ATK134
Other names
ATK 134, TAG-CR17

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
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe
Sectors
Aviation, Education, Energy, Financial, Food and Agriculture, Government, Manufacturing, Retail, Transportation

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • DesktopNow
  • Net Crawler
  • RDP
  • Remote Utilities
  • RemoteCMD
  • RemotePC
  • exposed AD

Sources