Smokey Spider is a Russia-aligned cybercrime group associated with development of Smoke Loader, also known as Smoke Bot, a malware family used to deliver additional malicious payloads. The group has been identified among Russian-aligned criminal actors assessed to pose a threat to critical infrastructure organizations, particularly in the context of heightened tensions surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Public reporting places Smokey Spider within a broader cluster of Russian-aligned cybercriminal groups that have been highlighted for potential retaliatory or opportunistic operations against organizations perceived as supporting Ukraine. High-confidence public attribution supports its association with malware delivery and follow-on compromise activity through Smoke Loader; additional operational details, victimology, and distinct sub-group structure are not well established from the available information.
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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.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
2 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.
3 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Russian cybercriminal group highlighted in the alert as part of the broader Russian cyber threat landscape.
Russian cybercrime group identified in the alert as posing a threat to foreign targets amid the Ukraine conflict.
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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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