Tomato Tempest
Aliases: SPURR, Vatet
- First seen
- 2019-04-15 00:00:00
- Primary motivation
- espionage
- Sophistication
- advanced
- Actor type
- nation-state
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:29:25
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications financial-services
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:cn
Context
Tomato Tempest, also known as SPURR and Vatet, is a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor group known for cyber-espionage activities targeting government, technology, and financial sectors primarily in the United States and China.
Reports & references
- Microsoft — Microsoft Threat Actor Naming (report)