Nomadic Octopus attempted to make Octopus appear as a Telegram Messenger with a Russian interface.4
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Nomadic Octopus G0133
- Created
- 24 August 2021
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Nomadic Octopus · DustSquad
Nomadic Octopus is a Russian-speaking cyber espionage threat group that has primarily targeted Central Asia, including local governments, diplomatic missions, and individuals, since at least 2014. Nomadic Octopus has been observed conducting campaigns involving Android and Windows malware, mainly using the Delphi programming language, and building custom variants.[1][2][3]
7
TechniquesBottom 24%
4
TacticsBottom 20%
1
Tool or malwareBottom 23%
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0133
Nomadic Octopus has used PowerShell for execution.5
Nomadic Octopus used cmd.exe /c within a malicious macro.6
Nomadic Octopus has used malicious macros to download additional files to the victim's machine.7
Nomadic Octopus as attempted to lure victims into clicking on malicious attachments within spearphishing emails.89
Nomadic Octopus executed PowerShell in a hidden window.10
Standing G0133
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this group touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 176 ATT&CK groups only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques7Bottom 24%
24th percentile · 76% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics4Bottom 20%
20th percentile · 80% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.
Tool or malware1Bottom 23%
23rd percentile · 77% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tools and malware.
Campaigns089% tie · 4 values
89% of the population shares a single value across only 4 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique61medTop 1%
99th percentile · 99% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique6med
Detection coverage G0133
618 distinct rules cover the 7 techniques recorded for this group. The 674 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 618 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 437 Sigma · 181 Splunk.
7 covered by at least one rule618 distinct rules in total
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