Threat actor
Lotus Blossom
Last fetched
Lotus Blossom is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 21 techniques and also known as 6 other names.
Also known as
DRAGONFISH, Spring Dragon, RADIUM, Raspberry Typhoon, Bilbug, Thrip
Description
[Lotus Blossom](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0030) is a long-standing threat group largely targeting various entities in Asia since at least 2009. In addition to government and related targets, [Lotus Blossom](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0030) has also targeted entities such as digital certificate issuers.(Citation: Lotus Blossom Jun 2015)(Citation: Symantec Bilbug 2022)(Citation: Cisco LotusBlossom 2025)
Techniques by tactic
Discovery
- T1012 · Query Registry
- T1016 · System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001 · Internet Connection Discovery
- T1018 · Remote System Discovery
- T1046 · Network Service Discovery
- T1049 · System Network Connections Discovery
- T1083 · File and Directory Discovery
- T1087.001 · Local Account
- T1087.002 · Domain Account
- T1482 · Domain Trust Discovery
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Lotus Blossom today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Lotus Blossom has no infrastructure.
References
- https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0030
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/lotus-blossom-espionage-group/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/intelligence/microsoft-threat-actor-naming?view=o365-worldwide
- https://securelist.com/the-spring-dragon-apt/70726/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190508165226/https://www.accenture.com/t20180127T003755Z_w_/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-46/Accenture-Security-Dragonfish-Threat-Analysis.pdf
- https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/research/unit42-operation-lotus-blossom.html
- https://www.security.com/threat-intelligence/espionage-asia-governments-cert-authority
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Related pages
Pivot from Lotus Blossom into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.