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Salt TyphoonG1045 state

🇨🇳 CN · MSS

aka Salt Typhoon, GhostEmperor, FamousSparrow, UNC2286, RedMike, OPERATOR PANDA

Last updated: 2026-08-20

0attributed CVEs
23ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active

About this actor

GhostEmperor is a Chinese-speaking threat actor that targets government entities and telecom companies in Southeast Asia. They employ a Windows kernel-mode rootkit called Demodex to gain remote control over their targeted servers. The actor demonstrates a high level of sophistication and uses various anti-forensic and anti-analysis techniques to evade detection. They have been active for a significant period of time and continue to pose a threat to their targets.

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

G1045

Microsoftweather-system names

Salt Typhoon

CrowdStrikenation-animal names

OPERATOR PANDA

MandiantUNC uncategorised cluster

UNC2286

Unclassifiedno scheme matched

GhostEmperorFamousSparrowRedMike

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 — 23 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-417 / 2374%
AC-316 / 2370%
CM-616 / 2370%
AC-613 / 2357%
CM-213 / 2357%
CM-713 / 2357%
AC-212 / 2352%
AC-511 / 2348%
CA-711 / 2348%
IA-211 / 2348%
AC-2010 / 2343%
SI-310 / 2343%
AC-48 / 2335%
CM-58 / 2335%
SC-78 / 2335%

Co-occurring actors

None.

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