Nomadic Octopus

APT / StateG0133
Origin🇷🇺 Rússia
Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)7
SourceMITRE ATT&CK
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Also known as:DustSquad

Vexday analysis

Nomadic Octopus, também conhecido como DustSquad, é um grupo de espionagem cibernética de língua russa ativo pelo menos desde 2014, com atuação direcionada principalmente à Ásia Central, abrangendo governos locais, missões diplomáticas e indivíduos. O grupo é identificado no MITRE ATT&CK sob o identificador G0133, com sete técnicas documentadas. Suas campanhas envolvem malware para plataformas Android e Windows, desenvolvido predominantemente na linguagem de programação Delphi, incluindo variantes customizadas.

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 severity14
Impact: High
T1566.001ENTRYInitial accessSpearphishingAttachmentEXECExecutionPowerShell

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) 7

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

Exploited vulnerabilities

No CVEs attributed to this group in public sources (MITRE ATT&CK). Absence of attribution does not mean absence of activity.

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