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Vanilla Tempest, also tracked as TAC5279 and formerly as DEV-0832, is a ransomware affiliate intrusion cluster associated with enterprise compromises observed from late 2022 through mid-2023. The cluster is notable for maintaining a consistent operational playbook while switching ransomware payloads from Vice Society to Rhysida, reflecting affiliate mobility within the ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem rather than a confirmed rebrand of the malware operators themselves. The actor has targeted organizations in government, logistics, education, and manufacturing. Initial access has been repeatedly associated with the use of valid VPN credentials on accounts lacking multi-factor authentication. After access, the cluster conducts internal discovery, credential access, lateral movement, data theft, and finally ransomware deployment. In at least one case, the actor also exploited CVE-2020-1472 (ZeroLogon) to compromise a domain controller. Vanilla Tempest commonly performs reconnaissance with administrative and network-enumeration utilities and uses Remote Desktop Protocol extensively for lateral movement, with additional use of SSH tooling and PsExec for remote execution. Credential theft has included dumping Active Directory database contents and extracting credentials from LSASS. The cluster has also used backdoor and proxy tooling for command and control and persistence, notably PortStarter in earlier Vice Society-linked intrusions and SystemBC in both Vice Society and Rhysida activity, with SystemBC becoming more prominent in later Rhysida cases. Persistence has been established through scheduled tasks and autorun mechanisms. The actor routinely attempts data collection and exfiltration before encryption, often using common archiving, file-transfer, and remote-access tools. This supports a double-extortion model in which stolen data is used to pressure victims in addition to file encryption. Observed dwell times have ranged from several days to multiple months, indicating patience and operational discipline in some intrusions.
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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.
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15 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
6 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
1 additional family tracked in Mallory.
1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.
5 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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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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