Earth Krahang
- Origin
- CN
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Last IoC activity
- 2026-07-21 08:35:51
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:14:39
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Context
Earth Krahang is an APT group targeting government organizations worldwide. They use spear-phishing emails, weak internet-facing servers, and custom backdoors like Cobalt Strike, RESHELL, and XDealer to conduct cyber espionage. The group creates VPN servers on infected systems, employs brute force attacks on email accounts, and exploits compromised government infrastructure to attack other governments. Earth Krahang has been linked to another China-linked actor, Earth Lusca, and is believed to be part of a specialized task force for cyber espionage against government institutions.
Reports & references
- rewterz.com — Rewterz Threat Alert China Linked Earth Krahang Apt Breached 70 Organizations In 23 Nations Active Iocs (report)
- Trend Micro — Earth Krahang (report)