GINC-APT-0103 · State

Void Blizzard

Also Laundry Bear, TA488, UAC-0190.

Category
State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
Origin
Russia(high confidence)
Motivation
Information theft and espionage
Seen
2024
Sources
9 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0103 · void-blizzard

What it is

Void Blizzard’s cyberespionage operations tend to be highly targeted at specific organizations of interest to the Russian government, including in government, defense, transportation, media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and healthcare sectors primarily in Europe and North America. The threat actor uses stolen credentials—which are likely procured from commodity infostealer ecosystems—and collects a high volume of email and files from compromised organizations.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

CERT-UA
UAC-0190
CrowdStrike
Laundry Bear
Proofpoint
TA488

Attribution

Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.

Targets

Countries
NATO, Ukraine
Sectors
Defense, Education, Government, Healthcare, IT, Law enforcement, Media, NGOs, Telecommunications, Transportation

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • Blizzard
  • Cyber Eye RAT
  • CyberGate

Sources