Intrusion setG0135
BackdoorDiplomacy
BackdoorDiplomacy is a cyber espionage threat group that has been active since at least 2017. BackdoorDiplomacy has targeted Ministries of Foreign Affairs and telecommunication companies in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
- Documented techniques
- 15
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2017
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
resource development2
initial access1
persistence1
discovery3
collection1
command and control2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
China ChopperTurian
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.
MimikatzNBTscanQuasarRAT