DarkVishnya is a financially motivated intrusion set associated with attacks against the banking sector, particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The group is known for combining physical intrusion tradecraft with post-compromise activity on internal networks. Reported operations involved gaining access to bank premises, connecting rogue devices to internal networks, and then conducting follow-on intrusion activity from within trusted environments. Observed tradecraft includes extensive use of PowerShell for execution and shellcode loading, creation of new Windows services to distribute or launch payloads, and use of scheduled tasks and remote access tooling for persistence and command-and-control support. DarkVishnya has performed internal reconnaissance through port scanning and discovery of public shared folders, and has used network sniffing as part of credential-access activity. The group has also leveraged publicly available administrative and offensive tools including Impacket, Winexe, and PsExec to support lateral movement and post-exploitation. ATT&CK-mapped behaviors associated with the actor include PowerShell execution, DNS-based command and control, exploitation for privilege escalation, Windows service abuse, scheduled task abuse, shared module execution, remote access tool usage, network sniffing, and network/service discovery. DarkVishnya is commonly tracked under the single name DarkVishnya, with no widely used alternate alias established in the supplied facts.
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33 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
3 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Mentioned as a threat actor associated with the network sniffing technique (T1040) in the detection annotation.
Listed as one of many threat actors associated with the detection's ATT&CK-style annotations for PowerShell and DNS TXT command-and-control behavior; no specific campaign or activity is described in this reference.
Listed as an associated threat actor for exploitation activity related to abuse of the Windows Cloud Files API / cldapi.dll detection.
Listed as a threat actor associated with PowerShell execution behavior relevant to this detection.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
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CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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