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Putter PandaG0024 state

🇨🇳 CN

aka Putter Panda, APT2, MSUpdater, PLA Unit 61486, 4HCrew, SULPHUR, SearchFire, TG-6952, G0024

Last updated: 2026-08-20

0attributed CVEs
7ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active

About this actor

[Putter Panda](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0024) is a Chinese threat group that has been attributed to Unit 61486 of the 12th Bureau of the PLA’s 3rd General Staff Department (GSD). (Citation: CrowdStrike Putter Panda)

Source: MITRE ATT&CK

Names & naming systems

Each vendor coins its own name for the same actor. Where a name follows a known scheme we attribute it; the rest are listed honestly as unclassified.

MITRE ATT&CKG-number catalogue id

G0024

CrowdStrikenation-animal names

Putter Panda

Mandiant / genericAPT numbering

APT2

Unclassifiedno scheme matched

MSUpdaterPLA Unit 614864HCrewSULPHURSearchFireTG-6952

How we know this

Data origin
MITRE ATT&CK Imported from the MITRE ATT&CK STIX bundle as an intrusion-set object.
Techniques
MITRE ATT&CK STIX mappings — 7 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
SI-35 / 771%
SI-44 / 757%
AC-33 / 743%
AC-63 / 743%
CM-63 / 743%
SI-23 / 743%
AC-22 / 729%
AC-52 / 729%
CM-22 / 729%
CM-52 / 729%
CM-72 / 729%
IA-22 / 729%
SC-182 / 729%
SC-72 / 729%
SI-72 / 729%

Co-occurring actors

None.

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