APT41 G0096
Also known as Wicked Panda, Brass Typhoon, BARIUM.
APT41 is a threat group that researchers have assessed as Chinese state-sponsored espionage group that also conducts financially-motivated operations. Active since at least 2012, APT41 has been observed targeting various industries, including but not limited to healthcare, telecom, technology, finance, education, retail and video game industries in 14 countries. Notable behaviors include using a wide range of malware and tools to complete mission objectives. APT41 overlaps at least partially with public reporting on groups including BARIUM and Winnti Group.
Documented targeting: Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Retail & Hospitality, Education & Research
Methodology
Relevance is a match on your industry sector and technology stack against the MITRE ATT&CK v19.1 group graph (174 groups, 821 software families, 56 campaigns). It is computed deterministically from that data, with no language model in the request path. It is a relevance match, not threat-intelligence probability data: it tells you which documented actors and techniques are worth emulating for an org like yours, not a forecast that any specific group will act.
TurboPentest can autonomously exercise 9 of 105 of this actor's documented techniques today (9%). 25 are out of scope for automated testing (social engineering, denial of service, physical).
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These counts are computed from the vendored MITRE ATT&CK graph and the published coverage map, and are reproducible from source.
In-scope techniques to emphasize
Known software
Mimikatz, pwdump, PlugX, China Chopper, Derusbi, gh0st RAT, Net, BLACKCOFFEE, ASPXSpy, ftp, Ping, ipconfig, netstat, dsquery, ROCKBOOT, Cobalt Strike, certutil, BITSAdmin, PowerSploit, sqlmap.
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Who is APT41 (G0096)?
APT41 is a threat group that researchers have assessed as Chinese state-sponsored espionage group that also conducts financially-motivated operations. Active since at least 2012, APT41 has been observed targeting various industries, including but not limited to healthcare, telecom, technology, finance, education, retail and video game industries in 14 countries. Notable behaviors include using a wide range of malware and tools to complete mission objectives. APT41 overlaps at least partially with public reporting on groups including BARIUM and Winnti Group.
What sectors does APT41 target?
Based on MITRE ATT&CK, APT41 has been observed targeting Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Retail & Hospitality, Education & Research.
Can TurboPentest test for APT41?
TurboPentest can autonomously exercise 9 of 105 of this actor's documented techniques today. 64 more need internal or assumed-breach access (the Adversarial-Depth tier), and the rest are out of scope for automated testing.
What does it cost to emulate APT41?
An Audit-Ready pentest starts at $99 per target. If it surfaces zero actionable findings, your next pentest is free.
Reviewed by
Michel Chamberland, Founder & CEO of IntegSec. CISSP, OSCP, OSCE, with 20+ years in offensive security, alumni of IBM X-Force Red and Trustwave SpiderLabs.
Last reviewed July 30, 2026.