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Operation SharpshooterC0013 unknown

aka Operation Sharpshooter

Last updated: 2026-08-20

0attributed CVEs
22ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active

About this actor

The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team and McAfee Labs Malware Operations Group have discovered a new global campaign targeting nuclear, defense, energy, and financial companies, based on McAfee® Global Threat Intelligence. This campaign, Operation Sharpshooter, leverages an in-memory implant to download and retrieve a second-stage implant—which we call Rising Sun—for further exploitation. According to our analysis, the Rising Sun implant uses source code from the Lazarus Group’s 2015 backdoor Trojan Duuzer in a new framework to infiltrate these key industries. Operation Sharpshooter’s numerous technical links to the Lazarus Group seem too obvious to immediately draw the conclusion that they are responsible for the attacks, and instead indicate a potential for false flags. Our research focuses on how this actor operates, the global impact, and how to detect the attack. We shall leave attribution to the broader security community.

Source: MITRE ATT&CK

How we know this

Data origin
MITRE ATT&CK campaign Imported from the MITRE ATT&CK STIX bundle as a campaign object.
Techniques
MITRE ATT&CK STIX mappings — 22 ATT&CK techniques on file.
Named victims
None on file.

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Activity timeline

No activity events recorded.

Profile

CVERiskCVSSEPSSPublishedProducts
No attributed CVEs.

Mitigating controls (NIST 800-53)

ControlTechniques coveredCoverage
CM-612 / 2255%
SI-312 / 2255%
SI-412 / 2255%
CM-211 / 2250%
CM-711 / 2250%
AC-68 / 2236%
CA-78 / 2236%
AC-37 / 2232%
SC-77 / 2232%
SI-107 / 2232%
SI-27 / 2232%
AC-26 / 2227%
AC-46 / 2227%
SI-76 / 2227%
SC-185 / 2223%

Co-occurring actors

None.

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