Wizard Spider
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WIZARD SPIDER is a criminal group behind the core development and distribution of a sophisticated arsenal of criminal tools, that allow them to run multiple different types of operations. The group surfaced in September 2016 with their commodity banking malware most commonly known as TrickBot. Their operations changed significantly in August 2018 when they began running targeted ransomware oper...
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Wizard Spider
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Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Europe
Community Identifiers
TrickLoader, TheTrick, TotBrick, BazarLoader, TrickBoot, Periwinkle Tempest, TrickBot, Kegtap, Ryuk, UNC1878, GOLD ULRICK, Conti, FIN12, Anchor DNS, Storm-0230
Objective
Financial Gain, Intelligence Gathering
Motivation
Criminal
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