Operation Soft Cell
- First seen
- 2018-01-01 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:58:37
Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications
Context
In 2018, the Cybereason Nocturnus team identified an advanced, persistent attack targeting global telecommunications providers carried out by a threat actor using tools and techniques commonly associated with Chinese-affiliated threat actors, such as APT10. This multi-wave attacks focused on obtaining data of specific, high-value targets and resulted in a complete takeover of the network.
Related threat objects
- GALLIUM (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- cybereason.com — Operation Soft Cell A Worldwide Campaign Against Telecommunications Providers (report)