216.73.217.172

Sandworm Team

· Published 16/12/2025 19:39 · Modified 27/03/2026 01:13 · Source: The MITRE Corporation

Essential information

Confidence
100/100
Published
16/12/2025 19:39
Modified
27/03/2026 01:13
Updated at
27/03/2026 01:13
Revoked
No
Author / Source
The MITRE Corporation
Resource level
—
Primary motivation
—
Related entities
100 attack patterns (mitre), 26 malware, 6 sectors, 5 countries, 22 indicators, 7 vulnerabilities (cve), 8 tool, 3 campaign

Aliases

ELECTRUM Telebots IRON VIKING BlackEnergy (Group) Quedagh Voodoo Bear FROZENBARENTS APT44 IRIDIUM Seashell Blizzard

Description

[Sandworm Team](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0034) is a destructive threat group that has been attributed to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST) military unit 74455.(Citation: US District Court Indictment GRU Unit 74455 October 2020)(Citation: UK NCSC Olympic Attacks October 2020) This group has been active since at least 2009.(Citation: iSIGHT Sandworm 2014)(Citation: CrowdStrike VOODOO BEAR)(Citation: USDOJ Sandworm Feb 2020)(Citation: NCSC Sandworm Feb 2020) In October 2020, the US indicted six GRU Unit 74455 officers associated with [Sandworm Team](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0034) for the following cyber operations: the 2015 and 2016 attacks against Ukrainian electrical companies and government organizations, the 2017 worldwide [NotPetya](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0368) attack, targeting of the 2017 French presidential campaign, the 2018 [Olympic Destroyer](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0365) attack against the Winter Olympic Games, the 2018 operation against the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and attacks against the country of Georgia in 2018 and 2019.(Citation: US District Court Indictment GRU Unit 74455 October 2020)(Citation: UK NCSC Olympic Attacks October 2020) Some of these were conducted with the assistance of GRU Unit 26165, which is also referred to as [APT28](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0007).(Citation: US District Court Indictment GRU Oct 2018)

Marking (TLP)

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External references

Related entities

Attack patterns, malware, vulnerabilities, indicators and other entities linked to this intrusion set.