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Tonto Team

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reference profile · reported nexus: CN (not nationality)

Tonto Team is a Chinese-speaking APT group that has been active since at least 2013. They primarily target military, diplomatic, and infrastructure organizations in Asia and Eastern Europe. The group has been observed using various malware, including the Bisonal RAT and ShadowPad. They employ spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments as their preferred method of distribution.

Source-reported aliases: CactusPete, KARMA PANDA, BRONZE HUNTLEY, COPPER, Red Beifang, G0131, PLA Unit 65017, Earth Akhlut, TAG-74, LONE CASTLE. Associations do not prove equivalence.

Target geography

Catalog-listed countries (associations, not attack counts): Japan · South Korea · Taiwan · United States of America

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Historical casebook

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

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References

Pinned source catalog

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/researchers-claim-china-trying-to-hack-south-korea-missile-defense-efforts/

https://docs.huihoo.com/rsaconference/usa-2014/anf-t07b-the-art-of-attribution-identifying-and-pursuing-your-cyber-adversaries-final.pdf

https://securelist.com/cactuspete-apt-groups-updated-bisonal-backdoor/97962/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-secret-weapon-in-south-korea-missile-fight-hackers-1492766403

https://www.pwc.co.uk/cyber-security/pdf/pwc-cyber-threats-2020-a-year-in-retrospect.pdf

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

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/03/10/exchange-servers-under-siege-10-apt-groups/

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/g/supply-chain-attack-targeting-pakistani-government-delivers-shad.html

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/targets-of-interest-russian-organizations-increasingly-under-attack-by-chinese-apts/

https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/cta-2023-0919.pdf

https://www.recordedfuture.com/multi-year-chinese-apt-campaign-targets-south-korean-academic-government-political-entities

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/updated-cyber-threat-actor-naming-system/

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