RedAlpha

Also known as: DeepCliff, Red Dev 3, RedAlpha

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has identified two new cyberespionage campaigns targeting the Tibetan Community over the past two years. The campaigns, which we are collectively naming RedAlpha, combine light reconnaissance, selective targeting, and diverse malicious tooling. We discovered this activity as the result of pivoting off of a new malware sample observed targeting the Tibetan community based in India.

🌍 Country China

Associated Operations

2017 2021 RedAlpha Conducts Multi-Year Credential Theft Campaign Targeting Global Humanitarian RedAlpha: New Campaigns Discovered Targeting the Tibetan Community Think Tank and Government Organizations https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/cta-2018-0626.pdf https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/ta-2022-0816.pdf https://www.recordedfuture.com/redalpha-cyber-campaigns/

Introduction

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has identified two new cyberespionage campaigns targeting the Tibetan Community over the past two years. The campaigns, which we are collectively naming RedAlpha, combine light reconnaissance, selective targeting, and diverse malicious tooling. We discovered this activity as the result of pivoting off of a new malware sample observed targeting the Tibetan community based in India.

Activities and Tactics

Country of Origin: 🇨🇳 China

Notable Campaigns

  • 2017
  • 2021
  • RedAlpha Conducts Multi-Year Credential Theft Campaign Targeting Global Humanitarian
  • RedAlpha: New Campaigns Discovered Targeting the Tibetan Community
  • Think Tank
  • and Government Organizations
  • https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/cta-2018-0626.pdf
  • https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/ta-2022-0816.pdf
  • https://www.recordedfuture.com/redalpha-cyber-campaigns/

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)

Information pending cataloguing.

Notable Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

No curated IOCs are currently published for this actor. This section will be updated when stable, attributable indicators are available.

Malware and Tools

  • CyberGate
  • Cyber Eye RAT
  • FormerFirstRAT:
  • Gh0st RAT:
  • NetHelp Infostealer:
  • RedAlpha:
  • a vulnerability in MS Office:
  • njRAT:

Attribution and Evidence

Country of Origin: China Additional attribution information pending cataloguing.

References

References pending cataloguing.