Threat Actors Targeting The Manufacturing Sector.
| Actor | Type | Origin | Motivation | Sophistication | Exploited CVEs | Top malware |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Velvet Ant0 aliases | Nation-state APT | China | Espionage | Advanced | 2 | Backdoored OpenSSH binaries |
| POLONIUM3 aliases | Nation-state APT | Iran | Espionage | Advanced | 1 | – |
| HEXANE8 aliases | Nation-state APT | Iran | Espionage | Advanced | – | DanBot |
| Night Dragon1 alias | Nation-state APT | China | Espionage | Intermediate | – | – |
| Royal3 aliases | Ransomware | Unattributed | Financial | Advanced | – | – |
| APT198 aliases | Nation-state APT | China | Espionage | Advanced | 9 | – |
| CyberAv3ngers1 alias | Nation-state APT | Iran | Espionage | Advanced | – | IOControl |
| DarkHotel3 aliases | Nation-state APT | South Korea | Espionage | Advanced | 16 | – |
| TA5772 aliases | Cybercrime | Unattributed | Financial | Moderate | 1 | – |
| Silence6 aliases | Cybercrime | Russia | Financial | Moderate | 8 | Atmosphere |
| Whitefly0 aliases | Nation-state APT | Unattributed | Espionage | Advanced | 1 | – |
| Thegentlemen2 aliases | Ransomware | Unattributed | Financial | Advanced | 1 | Akira ransomware |
| GALLIUM5 aliases | Nation-state APT | China | Espionage | Advanced | 5 | – |
| Moonstone Sleet2 aliases | Cybercrime | North Korea | Financial | Moderate | 1 | – |
| Sicarii0 aliases | Ransomware | Unattributed | Financial | Minimal | 1 | – |
| Fog1 alias | Ransomware | Unattributed | Financial | Moderate | 16 | – |
| APT-C-2318 aliases | Nation-state APT | Unattributed | Espionage | Advanced | 2 | AridSpy |
| Stealth Falcon3 aliases | Nation-state APT | Unattributed | Ideology | Advanced | 10 | Deadglyph |
| MosesStaff7 aliases | Ransomware | Iran | Ideology | Moderate | 1 | – |
| Cuba ransomware0 aliases | Ransomware | Unattributed | Financial | Advanced | 5 | – |
| Lapsus$4 aliases | Ransomware | Brazil | Financial | Moderate | 1 | – |
| Storm-26032 aliases | Cybercrime | China | Financial | Advanced | 4 | – |
| GoldenEyeDog2 aliases | Unclassified | China | Ideology | Advanced | 2 | – |
| Netwalker0 aliases | Ransomware | Unattributed | Unknown | Not rated | 37 | – |
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