GINC-APT-0337 · Targeted, sponsor unknown

RedCurl

Also Earth Kapre, GOLD BLADE, Red Wolf.

Category
Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
Origin
Unknown
Motivation
Information theft and espionage
Seen
2018–2026
Status
Active
ATT&CK
G1039 · 41 techniques
Sources
6 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0337 · redcurl

What it is

RedCurl is a threat actor active since 2018 notable for corporate espionage targeting a variety of locations, including Ukraine, Canada and the United Kingdom, and a variety of industries, including but not limited to travel agencies, insurance companies, and banks. RedCurl is allegedly a Russian-speaking threat actor. The group’s operations typically start with spearphishing emails to gain initial access, then the group executes discovery and collection commands and scripts to find corporate data. The group concludes operations by exfiltrating files to the C2 servers.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

CrowdStrike
Red Wolf
Secureworks
GOLD BLADE
Trend Micro
Earth Kapre

Targets

Countries
Australia, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
Sectors
Construction, Financial, Retail

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • Cyber Eye RAT
  • CyberGate
  • POWERSOURCE
  • POWERSTATS
  • Power Loader
  • PowerDuke
  • PowerRAT

Sources