Storm-2561
Storm-2561 is a cybercrime syndicate with a financial motive, tracked by Brandefense. It uses 48 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
- Techniques
- 48
- Exploited CVEs
- No CVE data
- Record updated
About Storm-2561.
Storm-2561 is a cybercriminal threat actor known for a credential theft campaign that employs SEO poisoning to distribute fake VPN clients. The campaign redirects users to malicious ZIP files containing digitally signed trojans that harvest VPN credentials, leveraging user trust in search engine results. The malicious components are signed by “Taiyuan Lihua Near Information Technology Co., Ltd.” and were hosted on GitHub repositories that have since been taken down. This operation exhibits characteristics consistent with financially motivated cybercrime.
Last updated Sep 12, 2026. Compiled by Brandefense technologies from structured threat intelligence and reviewed by Brandefense analysts. Techniques follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework.