- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Russia(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Financial crime
- Seen
- 2013
- Sources
- 5 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0428 · operation-emmental
What it is
Operation Emmental, also known as the Retefe gang, is a threat actor group that has been active since at least 2012. They primarily target customers of banks in countries such as Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and Japan. The group has developed sophisticated malware, including a Mac alternative called Dok, to bypass two-factor authentication and hijack network traffic. They have also been observed using phishing emails to spread their malware. The group is believed to be Russian-speaking and has continuously improved their malicious codes over the years.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- Retefe Gang, Retefe Gang, Operation Emmental, Retefe Group
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, Germany, Japan, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom
- Sectors
- Financial
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Citadel
- Retefe
- Retefe (Android)
- Tinba
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de