ItaDuke
Aliases: DarkUniverse, SIG27
- First seen
- 2013-01-01 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:59:06
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector defense-and-aerospace
Context
ItaDuke is an actor known since 2013. It used PDF exploits for dropping malware and Twitter accounts to store C2 server urls. On 2018, an actor named DarkUniverse, which was active between 2009 to 2017, was attributed to this ItaDuke by Kaspersky.
Reports & references
- Kaspersky — 94897 (report)
- Mandiant — The Number Of The Beast (report)
- Kaspersky — 35465 (report)