BRONZE BUTLER
Also tracked as REDBALDKNIGHT, Tick
BRONZE BUTLER is a cyber espionage group with likely Chinese origins that has been active since at least 2008. The group primarily targets Japanese organizations, particularly those in government, biotechnology, electronics manufacturing, and industrial chemistry.
- Documented techniques
- 40
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2008
- 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 development1
initial access2
execution8
persistence1
privilege escalation1
credential access1
discovery6
lateral movement2
collection4
command and control5
defense impairment1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
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.