warped_panda
Warped Panda is a China-nexus threat group that CrowdStrike identified as responsible for several intrusions using the Brickstorm backdoor. The group has targeted VMware vCenter and broader VMware vSphere environments at U.S.-based organizations, with activity affecting government and technology sectors. Reported tradecraft includes use of the Go-based Brickstorm backdoor for long-term stealthy access, persistence, interactive shell access, and covert command-and-control via HTTPS, WebSockets, nested TLS, and DNS-over-HTTPS. Associated intrusion activity described in the supporting content includes lateral movement using compromised service account credentials, credential extraction from Active Directory, theft of VM snapshots for credential access, creation of rogue virtual machines, and pivoting to Active Directory Federation Services servers to extract cryptographic keys. The only alias directly supported in the content is warped_panda.
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Targeting
Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Who they target
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
- government
- technology
Associated malware families
1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.
Recent activity
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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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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