Intrusion setG0142
Confucius
Also tracked as Confucius APT
Confucius is a cyber espionage group that has primarily targeted military personnel, high-profile personalities, business persons, and government organizations in South Asia since at least 2013. Security researchers have noted similarities between Confucius and Patchwork, particularly in their respective custom malware code and targets.
- Documented techniques
- 19
- 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.
resource development1
execution6
persistence1
collection1
command and control2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
WarzoneRAT