Publicly known as 'EmpireMonkey', ANTHROPOID SPIDER conducted phishing campaigns in February and March 2019, spoofing French, Norwegian and Belizean financial regulators and institutions. These campaigns used macro-enabled Microsoft documents to deliver the PowerShell Empire post-exploitation framework. ANTHROPOID SPIDER likely enabled a breach that allegedly involved fraudulent transfers over the SWIFT network.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| OSINT | Empire Monkey |
| OSINT | CobaltGoblin |
Sectors: Finance
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