Houken is a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor that exploits zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance devices to gain initial access to critical infrastructure networks, particularly in France. The group employs a sophisticated rootkit alongside open-source tools, primarily developed by Chinese-speaking authors, to maintain persistence and control over compromised systems. Houken is suspected to operate as an initial access broker, selling footholds in targeted networks to other threat actors for further exploitation.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | Houken |
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Every report in the Global Intel Library that names Houken, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
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Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Houken. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
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Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy.