Intrusion setG1033
Star Blizzard
Also tracked as SEABORGIUM, Callisto Group, TA446, COLDRIVER
Star Blizzard is a cyber espionage and influence group originating in Russia that has been active since at least 2019. Star Blizzard campaigns align closely with Russian state interests and have included persistent phishing and credential theft against academic, defense, government, NGO, and think tank organizations in NATO countries, particularly the US and the UK.
- Documented techniques
- 20
- Assessed origin
- Russia
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2019
- 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.
reconnaissance4
resource development7
initial access1
credential access1
lateral movement1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
Spica