Mandiant Upgrades Sandworm To APT44 Due To Increasing Threat
SearchSecurity, Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Over the past decade, Sandworm has been responsible for high-severity attacks that highlight the group's persistence, evasion techniques and threat to government bodies.
Mandiant promoted Russian APT group Sandworm to APT44 due to the significant risk it poses to government and critical infrastructure organizations globally.
In a blog post on Wednesday, the threat intelligence vendor revealed it upgraded the advanced persistent threat group commonly known as Sandworm to APT44 due to its crucial role in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and highly adaptative nature. Mandiant emphasized how dangerous APT44 is compared with other threat groups because of to its ability to conduct espionage, deploy attacks and influence operations while backed by the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). The APT group launched many successful campaigns since Mandiant exposed Sandworm 10 years ago.