Intrusion setG0133
Nomadic Octopus
Also tracked as DustSquad
Nomadic Octopus is a Russian-speaking cyber espionage threat group that has primarily targeted Central Asia, including local governments, diplomatic missions, and individuals, since at least 2014. Nomadic Octopus has been observed conducting campaigns involving Android and Windows malware, mainly using the Delphi programming language, and building custom variants.
- Documented techniques
- 7
- Assessed origin
- Russia
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2014
- 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.
initial access1
command and control1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
Octopus