APT41
Also known as G0096, TA415, Blackfly, Grayfly, LEAD, BARIUM, WICKED SPIDER, WICKED PANDA, BRONZE ATLAS, BRONZE EXPORT, Red Kelpie, G0044, Earth Baku, Amoeba, HOODOO, Brass Typhoon, Winnti, Double Dragon, TG-2633, Leopard Typhoon
APT41 is a prolific cyber threat group that carries out Chinese state-sponsored espionage activity in addition to financially motivated activity potentially outside of state control.
Targets: Automotive, Business, Services, Cryptocurrency, Education, Energy, Financial, Healthcare, High-Tech, Intergovernmental, Media and Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals, Private sector, Retail, Telecommunications
CVEs in recent coverage
No CVEs named alongside this actor in the last 90 days.
Recent victims
No leak-site posts on record for this group.
ATT&CK techniques
Recent activity
- 馃啎 Meet the Malware Analysis add-on for IDA Pro. It does the slow parts of malware analysis for you: - detects packed samples on load and offers to unpack them mastodon 路 Nov 4, 2026
- Threat Actors to Watch 2026: APT41 and UAC-0099 https:// packetstorm.news/news/view/467 53 # newsmastodon 路 Oct 30, 2026
- Threat Actors to Watch 2026: APT41 and UAC-0099 https:// packetstorm.news/news/view/467 53 # newsmastodon 路 Oct 29, 2026
- The operation has been attributed with medium confidence to APT41, a Chinese state-sponsored threat group also known as Brass Typhoon, Wicked Panda, and Barium.mastodon 路 Oct 26, 2026
- 鈿狅笍 CRITICAL: BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations BlackX UEFI bootkit is actively targeting diplomatic entitimastodon 路 Oct 25, 2026
- 馃 BlackX, a new UEFI bootkit, defeats Secure Boot on fully patched Windows hosts that haven't applied DBX revocations. Kaspersky attributes the campaign agmastodon 路 Oct 24, 2026
- BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophistmastodon 路 Oct 24, 2026
- 馃 BlackX: a UEFI bootkit used against diplomatic orgs in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in early 2026, attributed to APT41 by Kaspersky. It bypasses Smastodon 路 Oct 23, 2026
- APT41 deploys BlackX UEFI bootkit against Central Asian diplomatic targets in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, using a non-CVE Secure Boot bypass dubbedmastodon 路 Oct 23, 2026
References
- https://securelist.com/winnti-faq-more-than-just-a-game/57585/
- https://securelist.com/winnti-more-than-just-a-game/37029/
- http://williamshowalter.com/a-universal-windows-bootkit/
- https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2017/01/25/detecting-threat-actors-in-recent-german-industrial-attacks-with-windows-defender-atp/
- https://securelist.com/games-are-over/70991/
- https://medium.com/chronicle-blog/winnti-more-than-just-windows-and-gates-e4f03436031a
- https://www.dw.com/en/thyssenkrupp-victim-of-cyber-attack/a-36695341
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teamviewer-confirms-undisclosed-breach-from-2016/
- https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/winnti-abuses-github/
- https://www.dw.com/en/bayer-points-finger-at-wicked-panda-in-cyberattack/a-48196004
- https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/03/11/gaming-industry-scope-attackers-asia/
- https://401trg.com/burning-umbrella/
From the MISP threat-actor galaxy, MITRE ATT&CK and RansomLook (CC BY 4.0). Activity is any post or advisory Watch Floor collected that names the actor or one of its aliases.
