RedCurl
RedCurl is a threat actor active since 2018 notable for corporate espionage targeting a variety of locations, including Ukraine, Canada and the United Kingdom, and a variety of industries, including but not limited to travel agencies, insurance companies, and banks. RedCurl is allegedly a Russian-speaking threat actor. The group’s operations typically start with spearphishing emails to gain initial access, then the group executes discovery and collection commands and scripts to find corporate data. The group concludes operations by exfiltrating files to the C2 servers.
- Known attack methods
- 41
- Origin
- Russia
- Motive
- Espionage, Data theft
- First seen
- 2018
- 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
Resource Development
9 techniques · 1 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 2 used
Execution
20 techniques · 3 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 1 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 6 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques · 3 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 4 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 1 used
Collection
17 techniques · 6 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 3 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 2 used
Impact
15 techniques