Operation Ghoul is a profit-driven threat actor that targeted over 130 organizations in 30 countries, primarily in the industrial and engineering sectors. They employed high-quality social engineering techniques, such as spear-phishing emails disguised as payment advice from a UAE bank, to distribute malware. The group's main motivation is financial gain through the sale of stolen intellectual property and business intelligence, as well as attacks on banking accounts. Their attacks were effective, particularly against companies that were unprepared to detect them.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | Operation Ghoul |
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Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Operation Ghoul. 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.