SilverTerrier
MITRE ATT&CK: G0083 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: SilverTerrier
- First seen
- 2014-01-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- NG
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- team
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:53:01
Targeted industries: education-and-nonprofits manufacturing technology-and-telecommunications
Context
SilverTerrier is a Nigerian threat group that has been seen active since 2014. SilverTerrier mainly targets organizations in high technology, higher education, and manufacturing.
Detection coverage
- 7 YARA rules
- 31 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Mail Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- File Transfer Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Financial Theft (attack-pattern)
- NETWIRE (malware)
- DarkComet (malware)
- NanoCore (malware)
- Lokibot (malware)
- Agent Tesla (malware)
Reports & references
- paloaltonetworks.com — Silverterrier Next Evolution In Nigerian Cybercrime (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — G0083 (report)
- paloaltonetworks.com — Downloadresource (report)