Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia

Names	Terbium (Microsoft)
Country	[Unknown]
Motivation	Sabotage and destruction
First seen	2012
Description	(Microsoft) A few weeks ago, multiple organizations in the Middle East fell victim to targeted and destructive attacks that wiped data from computers, and in many cases rendering them unstable and unbootable. Destructive attacks like these have been observed repeatedly over the years and the Windows Defender and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Threat Intelligence teams are working on protection, detection, and response to these threats. Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified similarities between this recent attack and previous 2012 attacks against tens of thousands of computers belonging to organizations in the energy sector. Microsoft Threat Intelligence refers to the activity group behind these attacks as Terbium, following our internal practice of assigning rogue actors chemical element names.
Observed	Countries: Middle East.
Tools used	Depriz.
Information	<https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2016/12/09/windows-10-protection-detection-and-response-against-recent-attacks/>

Last change to this card: 14 April 2020

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