Red Apollo

Red Apollo (also known as APT 10 by <a href="/facts/Mandiant/1WRIdvhP">Mandiant</a>, MenuPass by <a href="/facts/Fireeye/yekW8oGy">Fireeye</a>, Stone Panda by <a href="/facts/Crowdstrike/BuKhwdR5">Crowdstrike</a>, and POTASSIUM by <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a>) is a <a href="/facts/People%2527s_Republic_of_China/lTjIXY5p">Chinese</a> state-sponsored <a href="/facts/Cyberespionage/ohotQr6M">cyberespionage</a> group which has operated since 2006. In a 2018 indictment, the <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Justice/2SuTuevo">United States Department of Justice</a> attributed the group to the <a href="/facts/Tianjin_State_Security_Bureau/pzzBvuuW">Tianjin State Security Bureau</a> of the <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_State_Security_(China)/2v0AEkrt">Ministry of State Security</a>.
The team was designated an <a href="/facts/Advanced_persistent_threat/cc8jXB2F">advanced persistent threat</a> by Fireeye, who reported that they target aerospace, engineering, and telecom firms and any government that they believe is a rival of <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>.
Fireeye stated that they could be targeting intellectual property from educational institutions such as a Japanese university and is likely to expand operations into the education sector in the jurisdictions of nations that are allied with the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>. Fireeye claimed that they were tracked since 2009, however because of the low-threat nature they had posed, they were not a priority. Fireeye now describes the group as "a threat to organizations worldwide."

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