GOBLIN PANDA

Aliases: Conimes, Cycldek

First seen
2013-01-01 00:00:00
Origin
CN
Primary motivation
espionage
Sophistication
advanced
Resource level
government
Actor type
nation-state
Last IoC activity
2026-06-15 10:45:04
Profile updated
2026-07-07 11:49:16

Targeted industries: defense-and-aerospace government-and-public-sector

Targeted regions: country_code:vn country_code:kh

Context

Goblin Panda is one of a handful of elite Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. Most Chinese APTs target the United States and NATO, but Goblin Panda focuses primarily on Southeast Asia.

Reports & references

  • CrowdStrike — Report2020Crowdstrikeglobalthreatreport (report)
  • cyberthreat.thalesgroup.com — Thales%20Threat%20Handbook%202022%20Light%20Version 1 (report)
  • CrowdStrike — Meet Crowdstrikes Adversary Of The Month For August Goblin Panda (report)
  • Kaspersky — 97157 (report)
  • fortinet.com — Cta Security Playbook Goblin Panda (report)

External references