Sea Turtle
Sea Turtle is a Türkiye-linked threat actor active since at least 2017 performing espionage and service provider compromise operations against victims in Asia, Europe, and North America. Sea Turtle is notable for targeting registrars managing ccTLDs and complex DNS-based intrusions where the threat actor compromised DNS providers to hijack DNS resolution for ultimate victims, enabling Sea Turtle to spoof log in portals and other applications for credential collection.
- ATT&CK ID
- G1041
- Origin
- Türkiye
- Weather family
- Dust
- Techniques
- 22
- Tools
- 1
Also tracked as Teal Kurma · Marbled Dust · Cosmic Wolf · SILICON
Vulnerabilities it has exploited
- CVE-2021-21974 Unscored
- CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j2Unscored · exploited in the wild
- CVE-2022-0847 Linux KernelUnscored · exploited in the wild
Techniques
Resource Development
Acquire InfrastructureCompromise InfrastructureObtain CapabilitiesStage Capabilities
Initial Access
Valid AccountsExternal Remote ServicesExploit Public-Facing ApplicationTrusted RelationshipPhishing
Execution
Command and Scripting InterpreterExploitation for Client Execution
Persistence
Valid AccountsExternal Remote ServicesServer Software Component
Privilege Escalation
Stealth
Obfuscated Files or InformationValid AccountsHide Artifacts
Defense Impairment
Disable or Modify ToolsPrevent Command History Logging
Credential Access
Collection
Data StagedEmail CollectionData from Information RepositoriesAdversary-in-the-MiddleArchive Collected Data
Command and Control
Software
SnappyTCP