Cyber threats / Threat actors

LongNosedGoblin

CN Suspected sponsor: China
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Profile

LongNosedGoblin is a China-aligned APT group targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan for cyberespionage. The group employs Group Policy for malware deployment and utilizes cloud services like Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive as C&C servers. Their operations feature a modular malware ecosystem, including backdoors, browser data stealers, and PowerShell-based downloaders that execute multi-stage payloads in memory. LongNosedGoblin's tactics emphasize reconnaissance-driven targeting and the abuse of trusted enterprise mechanisms, allowing for stealthy persistence within compromised networks.

ATT&CK techniques
MITRE ATT&CK has no technique mapping for this actor.
Incidents attributed
  • No incident in the register is attributed to this actor.
In the news
  • No Asia-Pacific article names this actor yet.
Targets
No victim countries in the sources.
Relevance to the EU
EU relevance: Low
No EU member state among its known victims and no overlap with EU projects
No EU cooperation projects recorded in its target countries.
References
Sources: MISP