Dark Engine has emerged as a significant threat actor targeting industrial control systems and SCADA systems in sectors such as metallurgy and food processing. The group has conducted multiple ICS-targeted incidents, with a pronounced operational surge in June 2025. Additionally, Dark Engine is involved in a campaign that embeds fraudulent CAPTCHA prompts into legitimate WordPress sites, utilizing SEO poisoning to harvest login credentials. Reports also indicate a data leak from Dark Engine that exposed sensitive phone data in the U.S.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| OSINT | Dark Engine |
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Every report in the Global Intel Library that names Infrastructure Destruction Squad, 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 Infrastructure Destruction Squad. 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.