SNOWGLOBE
Also known as Animal Farm, ATK8
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.
Targets: Government, Private sector, Syria, United States, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Iran, China, Germany, Algeria, Norway, Malaysia, Turkey, United Kingdom
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.
Recent activity
No posts or advisories have named this actor recently.
References
- https://securelist.com/blog/research/69114/animals-in-the-apt-farm/
- https://motherboard.vice.com/read/meet-babar-a-new-malware-almost-certainly-created-by-france
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150311013500/http://www.cyphort.com/evilbunny-malware-instrumented-lua/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150218192803/http://www.cyphort.com/babar-suspected-nation-state-spyware-spotlight/
- https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/2015/02/24270-babar-espionage-software-finally-found-and-put-under-the-microscope
- https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations/snowglobe
- https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/animal-farm-apt-and-the-shadow-of-france-intelligence/
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.