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Luckycat

Also known asluckycat

Luckycat is the name Trend Micro gave to a Chinese cyber campaign disclosed in March 2012. Based on the provided content, the campaign targeted U.S.-based activists and organizations, Indian and Japanese military research entities, and Tibetan activists. No additional high-confidence details on tooling, specific TTPs, sub-groups, or further aliases beyond “Luckycat” are present in the content.

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OPERATIONAL PROFILE

Targeting

Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.

Where they're from

Attributed origin per open-source reporting.

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MITRE ATT&CK

Tradecraft

8 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.

5 of 15 tactics9 techniques×N= number of intelligence reports citing this technique
MITRE ATT&CK
TA0043
Reconnaissance
1 technique
T1593
Search Open Websites/Domains
TA0042
Resource Development
1 technique
T1587
Develop Capabilities
T1587.001
Malware
TA0002
Execution
1 technique
T1204
User Execution
TA0009
Collection
3 techniques
T1005
Data from Local System
T1185
Browser Session Hijacking
T1213
Data from Information Repositories
TA0010
Exfiltration
2 techniques
T1020
Automated Exfiltration
T1041
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Target overlap

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Tradecraft mapping8

Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.

Malware arsenal1

Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.

Exploited CVEs

CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.

Detection signatures

YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.

Observables

Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.