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reference profile · reported nexus: CN (not nationality)

PLA Unit 61398 (Chinese: 61398部队, Pinyin: 61398 bùduì) is the Military Unit Cover Designator (MUCD)[1] of a People's Liberation Army advanced persistent threat unit that has been alleged to be a source of Chinese computer hacking attacks

Source-reported aliases: COMMENT PANDA, PLA Unit 61398, Comment Crew, Byzantine Candor, Group 3, TG-8223, Comment Group, Brown Fox, GIF89a, ShadyRAT, G0006. Associations do not prove equivalence.

Target geography

Catalog-listed countries (associations, not attack counts): United States of America · Taiwan · Israel · Norway · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · Singapore · India · Belgium · South Africa · Switzerland · Canada · France · Luxembourg · Japan

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Historical casebook

No dated record curated yet; absence does not establish inactivity.

Planned Kinwilder coverage

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References

Pinned source catalog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398

https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations/pla-unit-61398

https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/services/pdfs/mandiant-apt1-report.pdf

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/the-siesta-campaign-a-new-targeted-attack-awakens/

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2014/03/a-detailed-examination-of-the-siesta-campaign.html

https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/operation-oceansalt-delivers-wave-after-wave/

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/rp-operation-oceansalt.pdf

https://community.broadcom.com/symantecenterprise/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=f1265df5-6e5e-4fcc-9828-d4ddbbafd3d7&CommunityKey=1ecf5f55-9545-44d6-b0f4-4e4a7f5f5e68&tab=librarydocuments

https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0006/

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/us/us-to-charge-chinese-workers-with-cyberspying.html

https://www.mandiant.com/resources/insights/apt-groups

https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/summit/cds-2019/presentations/cds19-executive-s08-achievement-unlocked.pdf

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