- 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.
Western sources
- ETDA / ThaiCERTRussia
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)Russia
- MicrosoftRussia
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)Russia
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
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de