- Category
- Agency or leak · A state agency’s own unit, or a toolset known from a leak.
- Origin
- UK(low confidence)contested
- Sponsor
- State-sponsored
- Agency named
- GCHQ
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 1919
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0736 · government-communications-headquarters
UKWhat it is
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)[39] – Signals intelligence gathering and analysis.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Operations
- Operation Socialist
- Other names
- GCHQ
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 / ThaiCERTUK
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)United Kingdom
Targets
- Countries
- Belgium, United Kingdom
- Sectors
- Government, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Regin
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th