APT23
No sourced public emblem in this profile.
reference profile · reported nexus: CN (not nationality)
TrendMicro described Tropic Trooper in a 2015 report as: 'Taiwan and the Philippines have become the targets of an ongoing campaign called Operation TropicTrooper. Active since 2012, the attackers behind the campaign haveset their sights on the Taiwanese government as well as a number of companies in the heavy industry. The same campaign has also targeted key Philippine military agencies.'
Source-reported aliases: PIRATE PANDA, KeyBoy, Tropic Trooper, BRONZE HOBART, G0081, Red Orthrus, Earth Centaur. Associations do not prove equivalence.
Target geography
Catalog-listed countries (associations, not attack counts): No country-level metadata
No bound claim-post feed for this label.
Historical casebook
No dated record curated yet; absence does not establish inactivity.
Planned Kinwilder coverage
Tentative editorial review windows, contingent on evidence and review; not promised publication dates or predictions of attacks.
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References
https://blog.rapid7.com/2013/06/07/keyboy-targeted-attacks-against-vietnam-and-india/
https://go.crowdstrike.com/rs/281-OBQ-266/images/Report2020CrowdStrikeGlobalThreatReport.pdf
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/tropic-trooper-new-strategy/
https://blog.lookout.com/titan-mobile-threat
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0081/
https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/bronze-hobart
https://www.mandiant.com/resources/insights/apt-groups
https://www.pwc.co.uk/cyber-security/pdf/pwc-cyber-threats-2020-a-year-in-retrospect.pdf