- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Israel(high confidence)
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0333 · phlox-tempest
What it is
Phlox Tempest is a threat actor responsible for a large-scale click fraud campaign targeting users through YouTube comments and malicious ads. They use ChromeLoader to infect victims' computers with malware, often delivered as ISO image files that victims are tricked into downloading. The attackers aim to profit from clicks generated by malicious browser extensions or node-WebKit installed on the victim's device. Microsoft and other cybersecurity organizations have issued warnings about this ongoing and prevalent campaign.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- DEV-0796
- Other names
- Choziosi loader, Chrome Loader, ClickPirate
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
- MicrosoftIsrael
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)Israel
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Chrome Remote Desktop
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de