Names | IndigoZebra (Check Point) | |
Country | China | |
Motivation | Information theft and espionage | |
First seen | 2014 | |
Description | (Check Point) Check Point Research (CPR) has observed an ongoing cyber espionage operation targeting the Afghan government. Believed to be the Chinese-speaking hacker group known as “IndigoZebra”, the threat actors behind the espionage leveraged Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, to infiltrate the Afghan National Security Council (NSC). Further investigation by CPR revealed that this is the latest in longer-running activity targeting other Central Asian countries, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, since at least 2014. | |
Observed | Countries: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. | |
Tools used | Dropbox. | |
Information | <https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/07/01/cyber-espionage-on-afghanistan-kyrgyzstan-and-uzbekistan-by-chinese-speaking-hacker-group/> | |
MITRE ATT&CK | <https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0136/> |
Last change to this card: 30 December 2022
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