Hacker groupG0131
Tonto Team
Also tracked as Earth Akhlut, BRONZE HUNTLEY, CactusPete, Karma Panda
Tonto Team is a suspected Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage threat group that has primarily targeted South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States since at least 2009; by 2020 they expanded operations to include other Asian as well as Eastern European countries. Tonto Team has targeted government, military, energy, mining, financial, education, healthcare, and technology organizations, including through the Heartbeat Campaign (2009-2012) and Operation Bitter Biscuit (2017).
- Known attack methods
- 15
- Origin
- China
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2009
- 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
Resource Development
9 techniques
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques · 3 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 1 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 1 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 1 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques · 1 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 2 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 1 used
Collection
17 techniques · 1 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 2 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques
Initial access1
Execution4
Persistence1
Privilege escalation1
Stealth1
Credential access1
Lateral movement1
Collection1
Command and control2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
BisonalShadowPad
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.
LaZagneMimikatzNBTscangsecdump