The Cloud Atlas Perpetual Threat aims to persuade entities in Russia

Threat Level

Actor Report

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Summary

Cloud Atlas is a cyberespionage gang. They have launched repeated, highly focused attacks on critical infrastructure spanning geographical zones and political disputes since their discovery in 2014. As their initial attack vector, Cloud Atlas has employed spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments, which are typically Microsoft Office documents that retrieve the malicious remote template from the attackers’ servers.