CURSED FIRE
Hunt this family in your stack
Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
Groups observed using it
2 distinct threat actors attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
School of Magic, Clown Food, and Cursed Fire: These NSA tools were specifically designed for extracting sensitive files from telecom and defense research systems.
School of Magic, Clown Food, and Cursed Fire: These NSA tools were specifically designed for extracting sensitive files from telecom and defense research systems.
Techniques & procedures
1 distinct technique documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Exfiltration
1 techniqueOPERATION BEHIND ENEMY LINES: A suite of tools used to query, package, and encrypt stolen data before transmitting it to NSA-controlled servers ... Use of Proxy Servers & VPNs: To avoid detection, stolen data was routed through 54 jump servers and proxy nodes in 17 countries, masking the true origin of the attackers.
Recent activity
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
The version that knows your environment.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.