- 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
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de