Intrusion setG1002

BITTER

Also tracked as T-APT-17

BITTER is a suspected South Asian cyber espionage threat group that has been active since at least 2013. BITTER has targeted government, energy, and engineering organizations in Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia.

Documented techniques
16
Assessed motivation
Espionage
First seen
2013
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.

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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.