- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Motivation
- Financial crime
- Seen
- 2016–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0091 · 28 techniques
- Sources
- 8 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0155 · silence
What it is
Silence is a financially motivated threat actor targeting financial institutions in different countries. The group was first seen in June 2016. Their main targets reside in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Poland and Kazakhstan. They compromised various banking systems, including the Russian Central Bank's Automated Workstation Client, ATMs, and card processing.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- CrowdStrike
- Whisper Spider
- Mandiant
- TEMP.TruthTeller
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0091
- Other names
- Silence group, ATK 86, Contract Crew, Silence, Contract Crew, TAG-CR8
Targets
- Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
- Sectors
- Financial, Government, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Empire
- GraphicBooting
- Malicious CHM files
- S-Type
- SDelete
- Truebot
- Winexe
- Xpert
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de