Hacker groupG1033
Star Blizzard
Also tracked as SEABORGIUM, Callisto Group, TA446, COLDRIVER
Star Blizzard is a cyber espionage and influence group originating in Russia that has been active since at least 2019. Star Blizzard campaigns align closely with Russian state interests and have included persistent phishing and credential theft against academic, defense, government, NGO, and think tank organizations in NATO countries, particularly the US and the UK.
- Known attack methods
- 20
- Origin
- Russia
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2019
- 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.
Used by this groupNot documented for this groupIn brackets: sub-techniques this group uses, of those that exist.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques · 3 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 5 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques · 2 used
Persistence
22 techniques
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 2 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques · 1 used
Discovery
34 techniques
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 1 used
Collection
17 techniques · 1 used
Command and Control
18 techniques
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques
Reconnaissance4
Resource development7
Initial access1
Credential access1
Lateral movement1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
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