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Narwhal Spider

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NARWHAL SPIDER is the criminal actor who developed and operated Cutwail version 2 (v2). Cutwail is a spam engine that is delivered to infected machines through the Pushdo loader—it first came onto the criminal market in 2007, and has survived several takedown operations. Cutwail v2 is known in the Russian underground forum community as 0bulk Psych Evolution R4. Following a separation of the origin...

  • Narwhal Spider

  • Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Europe

Community Identifiers

0bulk, Psych, R4, Evolution R4, Storm-0302, GOLD ESSEX, Cutwail (v2), 0bulk Psych Evolution R4, Cutwail

Objective

Financial Gain

Motivation

Criminal

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