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Sandworm

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Sandworm

G0034RUEspionage1 report from 1 vendor· last reported 2026-01-23

This threat actor targets industrial control systems, using a tool called Black Energy, associated with electricity and power generation for espionage, denial of service, and data destruction purposes. Some believe that the threat actor is linked to the 2015 compromise of the Ukrainian electrical grid and a distributed denial of service prior to the Russian invasion of Georgia. Believed to be responsible for the 2008 DDoS attacks in Georgia and the 2015 Ukraine power grid outage

Vendor aliases (18)

The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.

VendorName
MicrosoftSeashell Blizzard
CrowdStrikeVoodoo Bear
OSINTQuedagh
OSINTTEMP.Noble
OSINTIRON VIKING
OSINTG0034
OSINTELECTRUM
OSINTTeleBots
OSINTIRIDIUM
OSINTBlue Echidna
OSINTFROZENBARENTS
OSINTUAC-0113
OSINTUAC-0082
OSINTAPT44
OSINTSANDWORM RELIC
OSINTUAC-0145
OSINTSandworm Team
OSINTBlackEnergy (Group)

Targeting

Sectors: Private sector, Government, Electric, Energy, Industrial

Victim countries: Russia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Poland, Azerbaijan, Iran

MITRE ATT&CK techniques (86)

Indicators of compromise

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Report timeline

Every report in the Global Intel Library that names Sandworm, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.

  1. ESET2026-01-23
    ESET Research: Sandworm behind cyberattack on Poland’s power grid in late 2025
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Threat feed IOCs (21)

Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Sandworm. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.

TypeIndicatorLinked bySeenSource
FileHash-SHA256dc074464e50502459038ac127b50b8c68ed52817a61c2f97f0add33447c8f730OTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149"2020-05-28AlienVault OTX
CVECVE-2019-10149OTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149"2020-05-28AlienVault OTX
domainhostapp.beOTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149"2020-05-28AlienVault OTX
URLhttp://hostapp.be/script.shOTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149"2020-05-28AlienVault OTX
CVECVE-2013-3906OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
URLhttp://95.143.193.131/aG91c2VhdHJlaWRlczk0/dirconf/check.phpOTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
URLhttps://144.76.119.48/YXJyYWtpczAy/loadvers/paramctrl.php;proxy=https=10OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
URLhttps://37.220.34.56/siteproperties/viewframes/dialog.phpOTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
URLhttps://144.76.119.48/YXJyYWtpczAy/loadvers/paramctrl.phpOTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
FileHash-SHA141997d5249bac1adff28d6f30ac5fc2607baa486OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
CVECVE-2014-4114OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day"2017-08-24AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD58313034e9ab391df83f6a4f242ec5f8dOTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD5330e8d23ab82e8a0ca6d166755408eb1OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
URLhttp://94.185.85.122/newsfeed.xmlOTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD559e41a4cdf2a7d37ac343d0293c616b7OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD5bdc7fafc26bee0e5e75b521a89b2746dOTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD52f6582797bbc34e4df47ac25e363571dOTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD58a7c30a7a105bd62ee71214d268865e3OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
FileHash-MD5c931be9cd2c0bd896ebe98c9304fea9eOTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
CVECVE-2014-4113OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX
emailoleh.tiahnybok@vosvoboda.infoOTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection"2015-06-05AlienVault OTX

Public research & publications (40)

Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.