- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2020–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G1022 · 25 techniques
- Sources
- 12 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0037 · toddycat
ChinaWhat it is
ToddyCat is a sophisticated threat group that has been active since at least 2020 using custom loaders and malware in multi-stage infection chains against government and military targets across Europe and Asia.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- Storm-0247
- Operations
- Operation “Stayin’ Alive”
- Other names
- Toddy Cat, Websiic
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 / ThaiCERTChina
- MicrosoftChina
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Targets
- Countries
- Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Slovakia, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
- Sectors
- Defense, Government, Military, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- China Chopper
- Cobalt Strike
- Cuthead
- FRP
- Impacket
- Krong
- LoFiSe
- Net
- Ngrok
- Ninja
- PcExter
- Pcexter
- Ping
- PsExec
- SIMPOBOXSPY
- Samurai
- SoftEther VPN
- TomBerBil
- Trojan.Karagany
- Trojan.Mebromi
- Unknown Logger
- WAExp
- netstat
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de