GC01

Aliases: Golden Chickens, Golden Chickens01, Golden Chickens 01

First seen
2017-11-01 00:00:00
Primary motivation
financial-gain
Sophistication
expert
Resource level
organization
Actor type
criminal
Profile updated
2026-07-07 11:56:09

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

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:ca country_code:gb country_code:de

Context

From November 2017 to October 2018, we attributed 14 campaigns to the GC threat actors that used a specific MaaS provider (hereinafter “the Provider”) offered by a known individual (hereinafter “the Provider Operator”).

Related threat objects

  • GC02 (threat-actor)

Reports & references

  • medium.com — Golden Chickens Uncovering A Malware As A Service Maas Provider And Two New Threat Actors Using 61Cf0Cb87648 (report)

External references