- 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
- ETDA / ThaiCERTKazakhstan
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)Kazakhstan
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
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de