ATT&CKReferences

References

Reports, blog posts and papers that MITRE cites as evidence.

3865 references

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Unit 42 Valak July 2020Duncan, B. (2020, July 24). Evolution of Valak, from Its Beginnings to Mass Distribution. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
Unit 42 WhisperGate January 2022Falcone, R. et al.. (2022, January 20). Threat Brief: Ongoing Russia and Ukraine Cyber Conflict. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
Unit42 3cx supply chain 2023Robert Falcone, Josh Grunzweig. (2023, March 30). Threat Brief: 3CXDesktopApp Supply Chain Attack. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
Unit42 AcidBox June 2020Reichel, D. and Idrizovic, E. (2020, June 17). AcidBox: Rare Malware Repurposing Turla Group Exploit Targeted Russian Organizations. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
Unit42 Agrius 2023Or Chechik, Tom Fakterman, Daniel Frank & Assaf Dahan. (2023, November 6). Agonizing Serpens (Aka Agrius) Targeting the Israeli Higher Education and Tech Sectors. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
Unit42 Azorult Nov 2018Yan, T., et al. (2018, November 21). New Wine in Old Bottle: New Azorult Variant Found in FindMyName Campaign using Fallout Exploit Kit. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
Unit42 BabyShark Apr 2019Lim, M.. (2019, April 26). BabyShark Malware Part Two – Attacks Continue Using KimJongRAT and PCRat . Retrieved October 7, 2019.
Unit42 BabyShark Feb 2019Unit 42. (2019, February 22). New BabyShark Malware Targets U.S. National Security Think Tanks. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
Unit42 Banking Trojans Hooking 2022Or Chechik. (2022, October 31). Banking Trojan Techniques: How Financially Motivated Malware Became Infrastructure. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
Unit42 BendyBear Feb 2021Harbison, M. (2021, February 9). BendyBear: Novel Chinese Shellcode Linked With Cyber Espionage Group BlackTech. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
Unit42 Bookworm Nov2015Robert Falcone, Mike Scott, Juan Cortes. (2015, November 10). Bookworm Trojan: A Model of Modular Architecture. Retrieved July 21, 2025.
Unit42 Cannon Nov 2018Falcone, R., Lee, B. (2018, November 20). Sofacy Continues Global Attacks and Wheels Out New ‘Cannon’ Trojan. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
Unit42 Chinese VSCode 06 September 2024Tom Fakterman. (2024, September 6). Chinese APT Abuses VSCode to Target Government in Asia. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
Unit42 Clop April 2021Santos, D. (2021, April 13). Threat Assessment: Clop Ransomware. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
Unit42 ComboJack 2018Levene, B., Grunzweig, J. (2018, March 5). Sure, I’ll take that! New ComboJack Malware Alters Clipboards to Steal Cryptocurrency. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
Unit42 CookieMiner Jan 2019Chen, y., et al. (2019, January 31). Mac Malware Steals Cryptocurrency Exchanges’ Cookies. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
Unit42 DNS Mar 2019Hinchliffe, A. (2019, March 15). DNS Tunneling: how DNS can be (ab)used by malicious actors. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
Unit42 DarkHydrus Jan 2019Lee, B., Falcone, R. (2019, January 18). DarkHydrus delivers new Trojan that can use Google Drive for C2 communications. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
Unit42 Emissary Panda May 2019Falcone, R. and Lancaster, T. (2019, May 28). Emissary Panda Attacks Middle East Government Sharepoint Servers. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
Unit42 LockerGoga 2019Harbison, M. (2019, March 26). Born This Way? Origins of LockerGoga. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
Unit42 Luna MothKristopher Russo. (n.d.). Luna Moth Callback Phishing Campaign. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
Unit42 Molerat Mar 2020Falcone, R., et al. (2020, March 3). Molerats Delivers Spark Backdoor to Government and Telecommunications Organizations. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
Unit42 OceanLotus 2017Erye Hernandez and Danny Tsechansky. (2017, June 22). The New and Improved macOS Backdoor from OceanLotus. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
Unit42 OilRig Nov 2018Falcone, R., Wilhoit, K.. (2018, November 16). Analyzing OilRig’s Ops Tempo from Testing to Weaponization to Delivery. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
Unit42 OilRig Playbook 2023Unit42. (2016, May 1). Evasive Serpens Unit 42 Playbook Viewer. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
Unit42 PlugX June 2017Lancaster, T., Idrizovic, E. (2017, June 27). Paranoid PlugX. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
Unit42 RDAT July 2020Falcone, R. (2020, July 22). OilRig Targets Middle Eastern Telecommunications Organization and Adds Novel C2 Channel with Steganography to Its Inventory. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
Unit42 Redaman January 2019Duncan, B., Harbison, M. (2019, January 23). Russian Language Malspam Pushing Redaman Banking Malware. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
Unit42 SUPERNOVA Dec 2020Tennis, M. (2020, December 17). SUPERNOVA: A Novel .NET Webshell. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
Unit42 SilverTerrier 2016Renals, P., Conant, S. (2016). SILVERTERRIER: The Next Evolution in Nigerian Cybercrime. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
Unit42 SilverTerrier 2018Unit42. (2016). SILVERTERRIER: THE RISE OF NIGERIAN BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
Unit42 Sofacy Dec 2018Lee, B., Falcone, R. (2018, December 12). Dear Joohn: The Sofacy Group’s Global Campaign. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
Unit42 Xbash Sept 2018Xiao, C. (2018, September 17). Xbash Combines Botnet, Ransomware, Coinmining in Worm that Targets Linux and Windows. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
Unit42KelleyVaya_BlingLibra_Aug2024Kelley, M., Vaya, C. (2024, August 23). Bling Libra’s Tactical Evolution: The Threat Actor Group Behind ShinyHunters Ransomware. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
Unprotect ShortcutUnprotect Project. (2019, March 18). Shortcut Hiding. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
Uptycs Black Basta ESXi June 2022Sharma, S. and Hegde, N. (2022, June 7). Black basta Ransomware Goes Cross-Platform, Now Targets ESXi Systems. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
Uptycs Confucius APT Jan 2021Uptycs Threat Research Team. (2021, January 12). Confucius APT deploys Warzone RAT. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
Uptycs Warzone UAC Bypass November 2020Mohanta, A. (2020, November 25). Warzone RAT comes with UAC bypass technique. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
VB .NET Mar 2020.NET Team. (2020, March 11). Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
VB MicrosoftMicrosoft. (n.d.). Visual Basic documentation. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
VDSO Aug 2005Petersson, J. (2005, August 14). What is linux-gate.so.1?. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
VECCloudFlare. (n.d.). What is vendor email compromise (VEC)?. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
VMRay OSAMiner dynamic analysis 2021VMRAY. (2021, January 14). Malware Analysis Spotlight: OSAMiner Uses Run-Only AppleScripts to Evade Detection. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
VMware VIBsKyle Gleed. (2011, September 13). What's in a VIB?. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
VNC AuthenticationTegan. (2019, August 15). Setting up System Authentication. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
VNC VulnerabilitiesSergiu Gatlan. (2019, November 22). Dozens of VNC Vulnerabilities Found in Linux, Windows Solutions. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
VPNFilter RouterTung, Liam. (2018, May 29). FBI to all router users: Reboot now to neuter Russia's VPNFilter malware. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
Validin Contagious Interview North Korea ClickFix January 2025Efstratios Lontzetidis. (2025, January 16). Lazarus APT: Techniques for Hunting Contagious Interview. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
VaronisJason Hill. (2023, February 8). VMware ESXi in the Line of Ransomware Fire. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
Varonis Power Automate Data ExfiltrationEric Saraga. (2022, February 2). Using Power Automate for Covert Data Exfiltration in Microsoft 365. Retrieved May 27, 2022.

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