Malware "Stonedrill"
description
A wiper malware sharing similarities with Shamoon 2.0, but even stronger with past attacks of Newsbeef aka Newscaster aka CharmingKitten targeted Saudi Arabian Corporations and was even found in an Kaspersky Network in Europe.
sources attribution
Not available
Not available
sources politicalization
Not available
start
01.11.2016
end
01.12.2016
source incident detection disclosure
Incident disclosed by IT-security company
receiver
label:
Not available
category:
Corporate Targets (corporate targets only coded if the respective company is not part of the critical infrastructure definition)
Other
country:
Europe (region)
label:
Not available
category:
Corporate Targets (corporate targets only coded if the respective company is not part of the critical infrastructure definition)
Other
country:
Saudi Arabia
inclusion criteria
Attack conducted by non-state group / non-state actor with political goals (religious, ethnic, etc. groups) / undefined actor with political goals
Attack conducted by a state-affiliated group (includes state-sanctioned, state-supported, state-controlled but officially non-state actors) (“cyber-proxies”) / a group that is generally attributed as state-affiliated
Attack on (inter alia) political target(s), not politicized
added to database
15.08.2022
articles
Not available
attribution date
2018
attribution basis
IT-security community attributes attacker
attributing country
Not available
attributing actors
Not available
attribution type
Technical report (e.g., by IT-companies, Citizen Lab, EFF)
initiators
label:
APT33/Elfin/MAGNALLIUM/Holmium/Magic Hound/G0064
category:
Non-state actor, state-affiliation suggested
Non-state-group, state-affiliation suggested (widely held view for the attributed initiator (group), but not invoked in this case)
countries:
Iran, Islamic Republic of
label:
Charming Kitten/NEWSCASTER/APT35/Phosphorus/NewsBeef/Group 83/TA453/G0059
category:
Non-state actor, state-affiliation suggested
Non-state-group, state-affiliation suggested (widely held view for the attributed initiator (group), but not invoked in this case)
countries:
Iran, Islamic Republic of
legal attribution references
Not available
Incident/Operation Type
Disruption
Hijacking with Misuse
data theft
none
disruption
Long-term disruption (> 24h; incident scores 2 points in intensity)
hijacking
Hijacking, system misuse, e.g., through data theft and / or disruption (incident scores 2 points in intensity)
Physical Effects (temporal)
none
Physical Effects (spatial)
none
unweighted cyber intensity
4
Target / Effect Multiplier
Moderate - high political importance
weighted cyber intensity
Low / moderate intensity - 4
MITRE: Initial Access
Not available
MITRE: Impact
Not available
Common Vulnerability Scoring System: User Interaction
Not available
Zero Day
No
cyber conflict issue
International power
offline conflict issue
Unknown
offline conflict intensity
Unknown
casualties
No casualties as a direct result of the cyber incident
political response
Not available
state responsibility indicator
Not available
il breach indicator
Not available
response indicator
Not available
Evidence for Sanctions Indicator
Not available
legal response
Not available
impact indicator
Not available
