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Nomadic Octopus, also known as DustSquad, is a Russian-linked cyber espionage threat actor associated with campaigns targeting Central Asia, including Tajikistan. The group is known for spearphishing-led intrusions that rely on malicious email attachments and macro-enabled documents to obtain execution on victim systems. Its tradecraft includes social engineering to induce users to open attachments or enable malicious content, followed by use of cmd.exe and PowerShell for payload execution and staging. Nomadic Octopus has also used hidden PowerShell execution to reduce user visibility and support defense evasion. Reported command-and-control behavior includes DNS-based mechanisms. The actor’s observed activity is consistent with espionage operations focused on collecting information from targeted victims rather than financially motivated ransomware or extortion activity.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
29 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
8 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
3 additional families tracked in Mallory.
1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Listed as one of many threat actors associated with the detection's ATT&CK-style annotations for PowerShell and DNS TXT command-and-control behavior; no specific campaign or activity is described in this reference.
Listed as an example threat actor associated with the detection's ATT&CK annotations for Linux system binary backdooring/masquerading behavior.
Mentioned only as one of many threat actors associated with the Masquerading technique annotation in a Splunk detection entry; no campaign-specific activity is described in this reference.
Listed as an associated threat actor in detection annotations for Ghostscript exploitation; no specific campaign activity is described in this reference.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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