- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Russia(medium confidence)
- Motivation
- Financial gain
- Seen
- 2016–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0127 · 14 techniques
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0350 · ta551
RussiaWhat it is
TA551 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been active since at least 2018. The group has primarily targeted English, German, Italian, and Japanese speakers through email-based malware distribution campaigns.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- MITRE ATT&CK
- G0127
- Secureworks
- GOLD CABIN
- Thales
- ATK236
- Other names
- Monster Libra, Shakthak, Shathak, TA551, Shathak
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
- ETDA / ThaiCERTRussia
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- IcedID
- QakBot
- Sliver
- Ursnif
- Valak
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de