Dragonfly
Also tracked as TEMP.Isotope, DYMALLOY, Berserk Bear, TG-4192, Crouching Yeti, IRON LIBERTY, Energetic Bear, Ghost Blizzard, BROMINE
Dragonfly is a cyber espionage group that has been attributed to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16. Active since at least 2010, Dragonfly has targeted defense and aviation companies, government entities, companies related to industrial control systems, and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide through supply chain, spearphishing, and drive-by compromise attacks.
- Known attack methods
- 56
- Origin
- Russia
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2010
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques · 3 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 4 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 4 used
Execution
20 techniques · 4 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 5 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 5 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 3 used
Credential Access
17 techniques · 3 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 8 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 2 used
Collection
17 techniques · 5 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 2 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques
Reconnaissance4
Resource development5
Initial access4
Execution7
Persistence5
Stealth5
Defense impairment3
Credential access6
Discovery8
Lateral movement2
Collection5
Command and control2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.