- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2021–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G1048 · 49 techniques
- Sources
- 9 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0102 · unc3886
ChinaWhat it is
UNC3886 is a China-nexus cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2022, targeting defense, technology, and telecommunication organizations located in the United States and the Asia-Pacific-Japan (APJ) regions. UNC3886 has displayed a deep understanding of edge devices and virtualization technologies through the exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities and the use of novel malware families and utilities.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Other names
- Fire Ant
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
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)China
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)China · high
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- CASTLETAP
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Deeper RAT
- MEDUSA
- MOPSLED
- REPTILE
- RIFLESPINE
- THINCRUST
- VIRTUALPIE
- VIRTUALPITA
- Xploit
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de