Windigo
- ID
- G0124
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 1 Aug 2026
The Windigo group has been operating since at least 2011, compromising thousands of Linux and Unix servers using the Ebury SSH backdoor to create a spam botnet. Despite law enforcement intervention against the creators, Windigo operators continued updating Ebury through 2019.[1][2]
Techniques used (7)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1090 Proxy
- T1189 Drive-by Compromise
- T1518 Software Discovery