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Volt Typhoon threat group

Volt Typhoon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting links it to 64 attack techniques. This free profile shows how it works, stage by stage, so you can judge the risk to you. It lists the other names the group goes by and links to every public report behind it.

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Attack techniques
64
Public reports
4
Thought to operate from
China
Other names
7
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is Volt Typhoon?

Volt Typhoon has 7 other names in security research. Below is what published reporting says about it, with a link to every report so you can check the detail yourself.

Also known as

BRONZE SILHOUETTEVANGUARD PANDAUNC3236Insidious TaurusVOLTZITEDev-0391Storm-0391

Security companies each give the same group their own name, so one group can have many.

What public reporting says

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. 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.

Public reports about Volt Typhoon (4)

How it works

How does Volt Typhoon attack? Stage by stage.

Each technique is a known way attackers research, get in, stay hidden or do damage. Here are the 64 linked to Volt Typhoon, laid out from first look to final blow. Some techniques belong to more than one stage. Pick a stage to see them. Public reporting also lists 48 more specific variations of them, called sub-techniques.

Stage 10 of 15

Looking around

Mapping the network, accounts and data once inside.

20 techniques
  • T1007System Service Discovery
  • T1010Application Window Discovery
  • T1012Query Registry
  • T1016System Network Configuration Discovery
  • T1018Remote System Discovery
  • T1033System Owner/User Discovery
  • T1046Network Service Discovery
  • T1049System Network Connections Discovery
  • T1057Process Discovery
  • T1069Permission Groups Discovery
  • T1082System Information Discovery
  • T1083File and Directory Discovery
  • T1087Account Discovery
  • T1120Peripheral Device Discovery
  • T1124System Time Discovery
  • T1217Browser Information Discovery
  • T1497Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion
  • T1518Software Discovery
  • T1614System Location Discovery
  • T1654Log Enumeration
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Volt Typhoon is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting links it to 64 attack techniques.

Public reporting places Volt Typhoon as operating from China. Attribution is never certain: it rests on the tools, infrastructure and targets researchers have seen.

Public reporting links Volt Typhoon to 64 attack techniques. Most of them are about looking around, hiding and researching targets.

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