Reporting regarding activity related to the SolarWinds supply chain injection has grown quickly since initial disclosure on 13 December 2020. A significant amount of press reporting has focused on the identification of the actor(s) involved, victim organizations, possible campaign timeline, and potential impact. The US Government and cyber community have also provided detailed information on how the campaign was likely conducted and some of the malware used. MITRE’s ATT&CK team — with the assistance of contributors — has been mapping techniques used by the actor group, referred to as UNC2452/Dark Halo by FireEye and Volexity respectively, as well as SUNBURST and TEARDROP malware.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | Midnight Blizzard |
| CrowdStrike | Cozy Bear |
| Mandiant | APT29 |
| Microsoft (legacy) | NOBELIUM |
| Various | The Dukes |
| OSINT | DarkHalo |
| OSINT | StellarParticle |
| OSINT | Solar Phoenix |
| OSINT | Dark Halo |
No techniques mapped yet.
No IOCs extracted yet from reports naming this actor.
Every report in the Global Intel Library that names UNC2452, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
No reports in the Lore library name this actor yet.
Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to UNC2452. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
No feed indicators linked to this actor yet. Feeds are checked every hour.
Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.