SNOWGLOBE
Aliases: Animal Farm, Snowglobe, ATK8
- First seen
- 2009-01-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- FR
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Resource level
- government
- Actor type
- Espionage
- Last IoC activity
- 2026-07-15 20:45:03
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:51:09
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:ca country_code:gb
Context
In 2014, researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered and reported on three zero-days that were being used in cyberattacks in the wild. Two of these zero-day vulnerabilities are associated with an advanced threat actor we call Animal Farm. Over the past few years, Animal Farm has targeted a wide range of global organizations. The group has been active since at least 2009 and there are signs that earlier malware versions were developed as far back as 2007.
Reports & references
- Kaspersky — Animals In The Apt Farm (report)
- motherboard.vice.com — Meet Babar A New Malware Almost Certainly Created By France (report)
- web.archive.org — Evilbunny Malware Instrumented Lua (report)
- web.archive.org — Babar Suspected Nation State Spyware Spotlight (report)
- gdatasoftware.com — 24270 Babar Espionage Software Finally Found And Put Under The Microscope (report)
- cfr.org — Snowglobe (report)
- resources.infosecinstitute.com — Animal Farm Apt And The Shadow Of France Intelligence (report)