APT4
Aliases: PLA Navy, MAVERICK PANDA, BRONZE EDISON, SODIUM, Salmon Typhoon, APT4
- First seen
- 2010-01-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- CN
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- Espionage
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:46:29
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector defense-and-aerospace technology-and-telecommunications
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:jp country_code:kr
Context
APT4, also known as PLA Navy, is a nation-state cyber espionage group attributed to China. They are known for targeting government, defense, and technology sectors globally, focusing on stealing sensitive information.
Related threat objects
- APT18 (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- Mandiant — Apt Groups (report)
- alienvault.com — New Sykipot Developments (report)
- Trend Micro — Sykipot Now Targeting Us Civil Aviation Sector Information (report)
- sans.org — Detailed Analysis Sykipot Smartcard Proxy Variant 33919 (report)
- cfr.org — Sykipot (report)
- secureworks.com — Bronze Edison (report)
- raw.githubusercontent.com — Microsoftmapping (report)