Silence
Also tracked as Whisper Spider
Silence is a financially motivated threat actor targeting financial institutions in different countries. The group was first seen in June 2016. Their main targets reside in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Poland and Kazakhstan. They compromised various banking systems, including the Russian Central Bank's Automated Workstation Client, ATMs, and card processing.
- Documented techniques
- 28
- Assessed motivation
- Financial gain
- 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 access1
execution9
persistence1
credential access1
discovery1
lateral movement1
collection2
command and control3
defense impairment2
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.