BOSON SPIDER

First seen
2015-01-01 00:00:00
Primary motivation
financial-gain
Sophistication
intermediate
Resource level
team
Actor type
criminal
Profile updated
2026-07-07 12:00:00

Targeted industries: financial-services technology-and-telecommunications retail-and-hospitality

Context

BOSON SPIDER is a cyber criminal group, which was first identified in 2015, recently and inexplicably went dark in the spring of 2016, appears to be a tightly knit group operating out of Eastern Europe. They have used a variety of distribution mechanisms such as the infamous (and now defunct) angler exploit kit, and obfuscated JavaScript to reduce the detection by antivirus solutions.

Reports & references

  • CrowdStrike — Report Bosonspider (report)
  • CrowdStrike — Ecrime Ecosystem (report)

External references