MoustachedBouncer

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)8

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

State sponsor: BelarusAttribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Government

Targeted regions: Europe · Eastern Europe · South Asia · Northeast Africa

About the group

MoustachedBouncer is a cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2014 targeting foreign embassies in Belarus.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity35

Impact: High

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 8

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Initial access

Content Injection

Execution

PowerShell JavaScript

Privilege escalation

Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Collection

Remote Data Staging Screen Capture

Command and control

Proxy

stealth

Software Packing

Exploited vulnerabilities 1

CVEs this group is known to exploit, per MITRE ATT&CK. Ordered by real-world severity.

CVE-2021-1732HIGHEPSS 78%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

References

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