- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Ukraine(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2008–2016
- Status
- Dormant
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0208 · groundbait
UkraineWhat it is
Groundbait is a group targeting anti-government separatists in the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Operations
- Operation Groundbait
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 / ThaiCERTUkraine
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)Ukraine
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)Ukraine
Targets
- Countries
- Ukraine
- Sectors
- Government, Separatists
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Prikormka
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de