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.

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
Source: MITRE ATT&CK View the original record · Last synchronised 2026-09-09 · Origin and motivation are read from MITRE’s own description and are not structured fields in ATT&CK. Where the text does not attribute a group, this page leaves them blank rather than guessing.