APT14 is a China-linked threat actor designation associated with historical intrusion activity observed between 2009 and 2011. High-confidence reporting in this context does not attribute the contemporary BADBAZAAR or MOONSHINE spyware operations to APT14 directly; instead, it notes limited historical infrastructure-registration similarities between some BADBAZAAR-linked domains and domains previously linked to APT14. Those overlaps consist of registration and hosting characteristics and are explicitly insufficient to conclude the actors are the same. Based on the available facts here, APT14 should therefore be characterized as a historically tracked Chinese intrusion set with only indirect, non-attributive overlap to later mobile-spyware infrastructure. No additional high-confidence details on APT14’s specific malware, victimology, or operational tradecraft are available in the supplied facts beyond that historical linkage.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.
1 indicator attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Historically linked to similarly registered and parked domains; noted for target-indicative three-letter subdomains in malicious infrastructure.
Historical comparison actor mentioned because of similar eNom/parked-domain patterns and target-indicative subdomains.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.