Volt Typhoon

Also known as BRONZE SILHOUETTE, VANGUARD PANDA, UNC3236, Insidious Taurus, VOLTZITE, Dev-0391, Storm-0391, DazedToad

7mentions, 7 days

30mentions, 30 days

Nov 6, 2026last mentioned

[Microsoft] Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises. [Secureworks] BRONZE SILHOUETTE likely operates on behalf the PRC. The targeting of U.S. government and defense organizations for intelligence gain aligns with PRC requirements, and the tradecraft observed in these engagements overlap with other state-sponsored Chinese threat groups.

CVEs in recent coverage

10.0CVE-2026-20127KEV
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager · 3 mentions with this actor
9.8CVE-2026-111497KEV
Google Brotli · 1 mention with this actor
6.5CVE-2026-115415
Amazon strands-agents-tools · 1 mention with this actor

Recent victims

No leak-site posts on record for this group.

ATT&CK techniques

T1003.001 LSASS Memory T1003.003 NTDS T1005 Data from Local System T1006 Direct Volume Access T1007 System Service Discovery T1010 Application Window Discovery T1012 Query Registry T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery T1016.001 Internet Connection Discovery T1018 Remote System Discovery T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol T1027.002 Software Packing T1033 System Owner/User Discovery T1036.005 Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location T1036.008 Masquerade File Type T1046 Network Service Discovery T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation T1049 System Network Connections Discovery T1056.001 Keylogging T1057 Process Discovery T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.004 Unix Shell T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1069 Permission Groups Discovery T1069.001 Local Groups T1069.002 Domain Groups T1070.004 File Deletion T1070.007 Clear Network Connection History and Configurations T1074 Data Staged T1074.001 Local Data Staging T1078 Valid Accounts T1078.002 Domain Accounts T1083 File and Directory Discovery T1087.001 Local Account T1087.002 Domain Account T1090 Proxy T1090.001 Internal Proxy T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1112 Modify Registry T1113 Screen Capture T1120 Peripheral Device Discovery T1124 System Time Discovery T1133 External Remote Services T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application T1217 Browser Information Discovery T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution T1497.001 System Checks T1505.003 Web Shell T1518 Software Discovery T1552 Unsecured Credentials T1552.004 Private Keys T1555 Credentials from Password Stores T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers T1560.001 Archive via Utility T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography T1584.003 Virtual Private Server T1584.004 Server T1584.005 Botnet T1584.008 Network Devices T1587.004 Exploits T1588.002 Tool T1588.006 Vulnerabilities T1589 Gather Victim Identity Information T1589.002 Email Addresses T1590 Gather Victim Network Information T1590.004 Network Topology T1590.006 Network Security Appliances T1591 Gather Victim Org Information T1591.004 Identify Roles T1592 Gather Victim Host Information T1593 Search Open Websites/Domains T1594 Search Victim-Owned Websites T1596.005 Scan Databases T1614 System Location Discovery T1654 Log Enumeration T1680 Local Storage Discovery

Recent activity

References

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.