- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sponsor
- State-sponsored
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2024
- Sources
- 8 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0149 · rednovember
What it is
TAG-100 is a cyber-espionage APT that targets government and private sector organizations globally, exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-facing devices such as Citrix NetScaler and F5 BIG-IP for initial access. The group employs open-source tools like Pantegana and SparkRAT for persistence and post-exploitation activities, including credential theft and email data exfiltration. TAG-100 has compromised entities in at least ten countries, including two Asia-Pacific intergovernmental organizations, and focuses on sectors like education, finance, and local government. Their operations highlight the challenges of attribution due to the use of off-the-shelf tools and techniques that overlap with other state-sponsored groups.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- Storm-2077
- Recorded Future
- TAG-100
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
- Bolivia, Cambodia, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Fiji, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam
- Sectors
- Embassies, Financial, Government, High-Tech
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Cobalt Strike
- CrossC2
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- LESLIELOADER
- Pantegana
- SparkRAT
- Xploit
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de