Threat Actor & APT Campaign Directory
This directory indexes 44 authoritative threat actors, APT groups, and cybercrime syndicates documented in our malware catalog. Each hub connects the adversary's geopolitical origins, tactical motivations, exploited CVEs, and observed MITRE ATT&CK techniques directly with cataloged malware binaries and active incident response guidance.
Nation-State APT(10 Threat Groups)
State-sponsored cyber espionage and strategic sabotage operations operating under foreign intelligence services and military commands.
- APT41 (Winnti Group) (aka Winnti Group, Barium) · China (Ministry of State Security Contractor Syndicate / Chengdu) 4 families
- Lazarus Group (aka HIDDEN COBRA, APT38) · North Korea (Reconnaissance General Bureau / DPRK) 3 families
- Sandworm Team (aka TeleBots, Voodoo Bear) · Russia (GRU Main Intelligence Directorate, Unit 74455) 3 families
- APT29 (Cozy Bear) (aka Cozy Bear, Nobelium) · Russia (Foreign Intelligence Service / SVR) 3 families
- APT10 (Stone Panda) (aka MenuPass, Stone Panda) · China (Ministry of State Security, Tianjin Bureau) 3 families
- APT28 (Fancy Bear) (aka Fancy Bear, Strontium) · Russia (GRU Main Intelligence Directorate, Unit 26165) 2 families
- Animal Farm APT (aka Babar Group, Snowglobe) · Western Intelligence (Attributed by CSEC & Le Monde to French DGSE) 2 families
- Equation Group (aka TAO, Shadow Brokers Targets) · United States (NSA Tailored Access Operations / TAO) 1 families
- Darkhotel APT Group (aka Tapaoux, Karba) · East Asia 1 families
- Operation Dark Caracal (aka Dark Caracal, PrinceAli Bandook Network) · Lebanon (General Directorate of General Security / GDGS) 1 families
Organized Cybercrime Syndicate(19 Threat Groups)
Financially motivated threat cartels specializing in enterprise ransomware extortion, large-scale banking fraud, and corporate network infiltration.
- Wizard Spider (aka UNC1878, Gold Blackburn) · Eastern Europe / Russia 4 families
- Zeus Banking Syndicate (aka Slavik Network, Gameover Zeus Crew) · Russia / Eastern Europe (Evgeniy Bogachev / Slavik) 4 families
- Evil Corp (aka Indrik Spider, Dridex Gang) · Russia (Maksim Yakubets / Igor Turashev) 3 families
- FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group, Navigator Group) · Eastern Europe / Russia 2 families
- LockBit Ransomware Syndicate (aka LockBitSupp, LockBit 2.0 / 3.0 (Black)) · Transnational Cybercrime Underground (Dmitry Khoroshev / LockBitSupp) 2 families
- TA505 (aka Hive0065, SectorJ04) · Russia / Transnational 2 families
- Avalanche Bulletproof Cybercrime Syndicate (aka GozNym Syndicate, Operation Avalanche Targets) · Transnational (Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe) 2 families
- Carberp Syndicate (aka Shiz Banking Gang, Carberp-Shiz Syndicate) · Russia / Ukraine 2 families
- Gozi ISFB Banking Syndicate (aka ISFB Operators, 76 Service) · Russia / Latvia / Romania (Nikita Kuzmin, Deniss Calovskis, Mihai Paunescu) 2 families
- Dharma & Crysis Ransomware Affiliates (aka Crysis Operators, Gold Southfield Affiliates) · Eastern Europe 2 families
- PINCHY SPIDER (aka REvil, Sodinokibi) · Russia / Eastern Europe 1 families
- TA547 (aka Scully Spider, DanaBot Operators) · Eastern Europe 1 families
- Cutwail Syndicate (aka Pushdo Gang, Cutwail Malspam Operators) · Russia / Eastern Europe 1 families
- Rove Digital (aka Ghost Click Syndicate, Rove Digital Network) · Estonia (Vladimir Tsastsin / FBI Operation Ghost Click) 1 families
- Mariposa Botnet Syndicate (aka Butterfly Bot Crew, Iserdo Network) · Slovenia / Spain (Matjaz Skorjanc / Iserdo) 1 families
- Azorult InfoStealer Syndicate (aka Pavka Network, Azorult Stealer Gang) · Russia (Pavka) 1 families
- Beebone Syndicate (aka Wopack Syndicate, AAEH Polymorphic Downloader Group) · Eastern Europe 1 families
- IcedID (BokBot) Syndicate (aka BokBot Gang, TA551 Affiliates) · Russia / Ukraine (Maksim Rudometov & Mikhail Tsarev) 1 families
- KRBanker Syndicate (aka BlackMoon Gang, KRBanker Cybercrime Operators) · East Asia 1 families
Malware-as-a-Service Operator(10 Threat Groups)
Underground commercial syndicates developing, leasing, and staging mass malspam loaders, infostealers, and commodity initial access tools.
- TA577 (aka Threat Actor 577, Pikabot Affiliate Network) · Eastern Europe Cybercrime 2 families
- Mummy Spider (aka TA542, Emotet Syndicate) · Ukraine / Eastern Europe Cybercrime Network 1 families
- DarkComet Operators & Syrian Electronic Army (aka DarkCoderSC Tools, Syrian Electronic Army Rat Operators) · France (Jean-Pierre Lesueur) / Weaponized across Syria & Middle Eastern Operations 1 families
- NanoCore RAT Syndicate (aka NanoCore Commercial Network, Operation Romanov Targets) · United States (Zachary Shames) / Transnational Criminal Weaponization 1 families
- Hupigon Syndicate (aka Gray Pigeon Authors, Huigezi Network) · China (Huang Xin / Gray Pigeon) 1 families
- Vidar MaaS Operators (aka Vidar Team, Arkei Derivative Syndicate) · Russia / Eastern Europe 1 families
- DarkGate MaaS Syndicate (aka RastaFarEye Operations, DarkGate Loader Team) · Eastern Europe (RastaFarEye) 1 families
- FormBook & XLoader Syndicate (aka XLoader Team, ng2000 Operations) · Underground Commercial (ng2000) 1 families
- Agent Tesla Commercial Syndicate (aka Agent Tesla Operations, Tesla Stealer Crew) · Underground Commercial (AgentTesla.net) 1 families
- njRAT Syndicate (aka spar-key Community, njRAT Authoring Network) · Middle East / North Africa (spar-key) 1 families
Historical Threat Group(5 Threat Groups)
Landmark threat actors, botnet authors, and criminal operators whose infrastructure was taken down through international law enforcement coalitions.
- Kelihos Botnet Syndicate (aka Severa Network, Hlux Botnet Operators) · Russia (Peter Yuryevich Levashov / Severa) 2 families
- Mirai Botnet Syndicate (aka Anna-Senpai Syndicate, Mirai IoT Gang) · United States (Paras Jha, Josiah White, Dalton Norman) 1 families
- Conficker Authors (aka Downadup Authors, Kido Botnet Crew) · Eastern Europe / Global Cybercrime 1 families
- Netsky & Sasser Author (aka Skynet Network, Sasser Author) · Germany (Sven Jaschan) 1 families
- Candiru / Saito Tech Ltd (aka Saito Tech, Taveta Ltd) · Israel (Tel Aviv) 1 families