SHARK SPIDER

First seen

2013-11-01 00:00:00

Origin

RU

Primary motivation

financial-gain

Sophistication

advanced

Resource level

organization

Actor type

criminal

Profile updated

2026-07-07 11:45:49

Targeted industries: financial-services technology-and-telecommunications

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb

Context

This group's activity was first observed in November 2013. It leverages a banking Trojan more commonly known as Shylock which aims to compromise online banking credentials and credentials related to Bitcoin wallets.