Hacker groupG0090
WIRTE
Also tracked as Ashen Lepus
WIRTE is a cyberespionage actor, believed to be a subgroup of the Hamas-affiliated Gaza Cybergang, that has been active since at least August 2018. WIRTE has targeted diplomatic, financial, military, legal, and technology organizations across the Middle East, North Africa, and in Europe to gather intelligence. WIRTE has remained persistently active despite the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and has expanded their operations to include wiper malware attacks against Israeli targets.
- Known attack methods
- 26
- Motive
- Espionage, Sabotage
- 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 · 4 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques · 3 used
Persistence
22 techniques
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 7 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques
Discovery
34 techniques
Lateral Movement
9 techniques
Collection
17 techniques · 2 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 3 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 1 used
Impact
15 techniques
Resource development4
Initial access2
Execution6
Stealth8
Command and control3
Exfiltration1
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Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
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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.
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