Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia

APT group: Strider, ProjectSauron

Names	Strider (Symantec) ProjectSauron (Kaspersky)
Country	USA
Motivation	Information theft and espionage
First seen	2011
Description	(Symantec) Strider has been active since at least October 2011. The group has maintained a low profile until now and its targets have been mainly organizations and individuals that would be of interest to a nation state’s intelligence services. Symantec obtained a sample of the group’s Remsec malware from a customer who submitted it following its detection by our behavioral engine. Remsec is primarily designed to spy on targets. It opens a back door on an infected computer, can log keystrokes, and steal files. Strider has been highly selective in its choice of targets and, to date, Symantec has found evidence of infections in 36 computers across seven separate organizations. The group’s targets include a number of organizations and individuals located in Russia, an airline in China, an organization in Sweden, and an embassy in Belgium.
Observed	Sectors: Defense, Embassies, Financial, Government, Telecommunications and Scientific research centers. Countries: Belgium, China, Iran, Russia, Rwanda, Sweden.
Tools used	Remsec.
Information	<https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/strider-cyberespionage-group-turns-eye-sauron-targets> <https://media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2018/03/07190154/The-ProjectSauron-APT_research_KL.pdf>
MITRE ATT&CK	<https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0041/>

Last change to this card: 22 April 2020

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