GALLIUM threat group

GALLIUM is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting links it to 27 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.

Attack techniques
27
Public reports
5
Thought to operate from
China
Other names
3
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is GALLIUM?

GALLIUM has 3 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

Red Dev 4Alloy TaurusGranite Typhoon

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

What public reporting says

GALLIUM, is a threat actor believed to be targeting telecommunication providers over the world, mostly South-East Asia, Europe and Africa. To compromise targeted networks, GALLIUM target unpatched internet-facing services using publicly available exploits and have been known to target vulnerabilities in WildFly/JBoss.

How it works

How does GALLIUM attack? Stage by stage.

Each technique is a known way attackers research, get in, stay hidden or do damage. Here are the 27 linked to GALLIUM, 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 18 more specific variations of them, called sub-techniques.

Stage 5 of 15

Staying in

Making sure they keep access after a restart or a password change.

5 techniques
  • T1053Scheduled Task/Job
  • T1078Valid Accounts
  • T1133External Remote Services
  • T1136Create Account
  • T1505Server Software Component
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GALLIUM is a threat group thought to operate from China. Public reporting links it to 27 attack techniques.

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

Public reporting links GALLIUM to 27 attack techniques. Most of them are about staying in, running code and hiding.

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