From 772c5145c1de7ed8ae62d08701dc3a291557186b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Dupuy <thom4s.d@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:44:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added BackdoorDiplomacy and Gelsemium.

---
 clusters/threat-actor.json | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/clusters/threat-actor.json b/clusters/threat-actor.json
index 32342ec..c6a9be6 100644
--- a/clusters/threat-actor.json
+++ b/clusters/threat-actor.json
@@ -8778,7 +8778,62 @@
       },
       "uuid": "6c514d9d-e2fa-45a5-a938-9a461f69ad2d",
       "value": "GOLD WINTER"
+    },
+    {
+      "description": "An APT group that we are calling BackdoorDiplomacy, due to the main vertical of its victims, has been targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs and telecommunication companies in Africa and the Middle East since at least 2017.",
+      "meta": {
+        "cfr-suspected-victims": [
+          "Libya",
+          "Namibia",
+          "Sudan",
+          "Albania",
+          "Croatia",
+          "Georgia",
+          "Poland",
+          "Iran",
+          "Qatar",
+          "Saudi Arabia",
+          "Sri Lanka",
+          "Uzbekistan"
+        ],
+        "cfr-target-category": [
+          "Government",
+          "Telecomms"
+        ],
+        "refs": [
+          "https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/06/10/backdoordiplomacy-upgrading-quarian-turian/"
+        ],
+        "synonyms": [
+          "BackDip",
+          "CloudComputating",
+          "Quarian"
+        ]
+      },
+      "uuid": "6472be4d-c186-4c86-b3b7-7dc1b4d3a3d8",
+      "value": "BackdoorDiplomacy"
+    },
+    {
+      "description": "The Gelsemium group has been active since at least 2014 and was described in the past by a few security companies. Gelsemium’s name comes from one possible translation ESET found while reading a report from VenusTech who dubbed the group 狼毒草 for the first time. It’s the name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gelsemiaceae, Gelsemium elegans is the species that contains toxic compounds like Gelsemine, Gelsenicine and Gelsevirine, which ESET choses as names for the three components of this malware family.",
+      "meta": {
+        "cfr-target-category": [
+          "Government",
+          "Electronics Manufacturers",
+          "Universities",
+          "Religious organization"
+        ],
+        "refs": [
+          "https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/06/09/gelsemium-when-threat-actors-go-gardening/",
+          "https://www.venustech.com.cn/uploads/2018/08/231401512426.pdf",
+          "https://hitcon.org/2016/pacific/0composition/pdf/1202/1202%20R0%200930%20an%20intelligance-driven%20approach%20to%20cyber%20defense.pdf",
+          "https://public.gdatasoftware.com/Presse/Publikationen/Whitepaper/EN/GDATA_TooHash_CaseStudy_102014_EN_v1.pdf"
+        ],
+        "synonyms": [
+          "狼毒草"
+        ]
+      },
+      "uuid": "2dd31182-bae1-48ed-8bb3-805a3df89783",
+      "value": "Gelsemium"
     }
   ],
-  "version": 203
+  "version": 204
 }