APT14
Aliases: ANCHOR PANDA, QAZTeam, ALUMINUM
- Origin
- CN
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- Espionage
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:46:21
Targeted industries: defense-and-aerospace government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications transportation-and-logistics
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:de country_code:se country_code:gb country_code:au
Context
PLA Navy Anchor Panda is an adversary that CrowdStrike has tracked extensively over the last year targeting both civilian and military maritime operations in the green/brown water regions primarily in the area of operations of the South Sea Fleet of the PLA Navy. In addition to maritime operations in this region, Anchor Panda also heavily targeted western companies in the US, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and Australia, and other countries involved in maritime satellite systems, aerospace companies, and defense contractors. Not surprisingly, embassies and diplomatic missions in the region, foreign intelligence services, and foreign governments with space programs were also targeted.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Malware & tools used
Reports & references
- Mandiant — Apt Groups (report)
- CrowdStrike — Whois Anchor Panda (report)
- cfr.org — Anchor Panda (report)