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[threat-actors] Add Fox Tempest#1232

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Adds Fox Tempest to clusters/threat-actor.json.

Fox Tempest (Microsoft naming) is a financially motivated actor that operated a malware-signing-as-a-service, abusing Microsoft Artifact Signing to issue fraudulent short-lived code-signing certificates for ransomware operators. Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disrupted the operation (signspace[.]cloud) in May 2026, revoking 1,000+ certificates and naming Vanilla Tempest as a co-defendant in the SDNY.

Entry

  • value: Fox Tempest
  • uuid: 56bc8e25-6915-4e2e-8d44-9d3b14aab9f6 — fresh v4; grep -r confirms unique across clusters/ and galaxies/

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Cross-vendor identity / dedup check
Microsoft is currently the only vendor to publicly name this actor; no cross-vendor aliases exist yet. Searched clusters/ case-insensitively for Fox Tempest, signspace, malware-signing, and MSaaS — no existing entry represents this actor under any name. The downstream actors it serviced (Vanilla Tempest, Storm-0501, Storm-2561, Storm-0249) already exist as separate entries and are consumers of the service, not this actor; they are named in the description rather than duplicated. No related links added, consistent with recent single-entry additions.

Housekeeping

  • version bumped 341 → 342
  • ./jq_all_the_things.sh applied; entry appended at end (insertion-order convention); jsonschema + chk_empty_strings pass.

@Aryu-RU Aryu-RU force-pushed the add-fox-tempest branch from 22f5037 to e52cddc Compare July 5, 2026 10:36
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