Callisto Group
Country: Russian Federation Organization: Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 18 Motivation: Espionage
Aliases
- SEABORGIUM (formerly used by Microsoft)
- Star Blizzard (Microsoft)
- TA446 (Proofpoint)
- COLDRIVER (Google Threat Analysis Group)
- TAG-53 (formerly used by Recorded Future)
- BlueCharlie (Recorded Future)
- Iron Frontier (Secureworks)
- Blue Callisto (PwC)
- Calisto (Sekoia)
- The Callisto Group (F-Secure, now called WithSecure)
- UNC4057 (Mandiant)
- Gossamer Bear (CrowdStrike)
Identified Members
- Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko
- Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets
References (Sorted by Chronological Order)
2024
- April 25, 2024 – Mandiant: Poll Vaulting: Cyber Threats to Global Elections
2023
- December 13, 2023 – Sekoia: CALISTO doxxing: Sekoia.io findings concurs to Reuters’ investigation on FSB-related Andrey Korinets
- December 8, 2023:
- December 7, 2023: (ATTRIBUTION)
- NCSC-UK: Russian FSB cyber actor Star Blizzard continues worldwide spear-phishing campaigns
- United Kingdom: UK exposes attempted Russian cyber interference in politics and democratic processes
- CISA: Russian FSB Cyber Actor Star Blizzard Continues Worldwide Spear-phishing Campaigns
- FBI: Russian FSB cyber actor Star Blizzard continues worldwide spear-phishing campaigns. (PDF)
- U.S. Cyber Command: US, Allies Highlight Russian-State Cyber Actor “Star Blizzard” Spear-phishing Campaigns
- U.S. Department of Justice: Two Russian Nationals Working with Russia’s Federal Security Service Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaign
- U.S. Treasury: United States and the United Kingdom Sanction Members of Russian State Intelligence-Sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat Group
- U.S. State Department: U.S. Takes Action to Further Disrupt Russian Cyber Activities
- Microsoft: Star Blizzard increases sophistication and evasion in ongoing attacks
- August 02, 2023 – Recorded Future: BlueCharlie, Previously Tracked as TAG-53, Continues to Deploy New Infrastructure in 2023
- February 15, 2023 – Mandiant/Google TAG: Fog of War: How the Ukraine Conflict Transformed the Cyber Threat Landscape (PDF)
- January 26, 2023 – NCSC-UK: SEABORGIUM and TA453 continue their respective spear-phishing campaigns against targets of interest
- January 06, 2023 – Reuters: Exclusive: Russian hackers targeted U.S. nuclear scientists (News article)
2022
- December 05, 2022:
- December 02, 2022 – PwC: Blue Callisto orbits around US Laboratories in 2022
- August 15, 2022 – Microsoft: Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations
- June 22, 2022 – Sekoia: CALISTO continues its credential harvesting campaign
- May 03, 2022 – Google Threat Analysis Group: Update on cyber activity in Eastern Europe
- March 30, 2022 – Google Threat Analysis Group: Tracking cyber activity in Eastern Europe
2017
- April 13, 2017 – F-Secure: The Callisto Group (PDF)