WIP26
WIP26 is a nation-state APT group with an espionage motive, tracked by Brandefense. It targets the Telecommunications sector.
- Techniques
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- Exploited CVEs
- No CVE data
- First seen
- Jan 1, 2022
- Record updated
Who They Target.
About WIP26.
The threat actor behind WIP26 has been targeting telecommunication providers in the Middle East. WIP26 is characterized by the abuse of public Cloud infrastructure, Microsoft 365 Mail, Microsoft Azure, Google Firebase, and Dropbox, for malware delivery, data exfiltration, and C2 purposes. The WIP26 activity is initiated by precision targeting of employees through WhatsApp messages that contain Dropbox links to a malware loader. Tricking employees into downloading and executing the loader ultimately leads to the deployment of backdoors that leverage Microsoft 365 Mail and Google Firebase instances as C2 servers. We refer to these backdoors as CMD365 and CMDEmber, respectively. The main functionality of CMD365 and CMDEmber is to execute attacker-provided system commands using the Windows command interpreter.
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Compiled by Brandefense technologies from structured threat intelligence and reviewed by Brandefense analysts. Techniques follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework.