- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Sources
- 5 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0438 · prophet-spider
What it is
PROPHET SPIDER is an eCrime actor, active since at least May 2017, that primarily gains access to victims by compromising vulnerable web servers, which commonly involves leveraging a variety of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. The adversary has likely functioned as an access broker — handing off access to a third party to deploy ransomware — in multiple instances.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Mandiant
- UNC961
- Secureworks
- GOLD MELODY
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de