- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Russia(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Financial gain
- Seen
- 2011–2026
- Status
- Active
- ATT&CK
- G0124 · 7 techniques
- Sources
- 5 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0478 · windigo
RussiaWhat it is
The Windigo group has been operating since at least 2011, compromising thousands of Linux and Unix servers using the Ebury SSH backdoor to create a spam botnet. Despite law enforcement intervention against the creators, Windigo operators continued updating Ebury through 2019.
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
- G0124
- Operations
- Operation Windigo
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
- ThreatActor.info (Malpedia et al.)Russia
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- CDorked
- Calfbot
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- Ebury
Sources
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th