Dropping Elephant (also known as “Chinastrats” and “Patchwork“) is a relatively new threat actor that is targeting a variety of high profile diplomatic and economic targets using a custom set of attack tools. Its victims are all involved with China’s foreign relations in some way, and are generally caught through spear-phishing or watering hole attacks.
Also known as
Chinastrats, Patchwork, Monsoon, Sarit, Dropping Elephant, APT-C-09, ZINC EMERSON, ATK11, G0040, Orange Athos, Thirsty Gemini.
References
- community.broadcom.com
- forcepoint.com
- cymmetria.com
- s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- volexity.com
- attack.mitre.org
- documents.trendmicro.com
- securelist.com
- forcepoint.com
- secureworks.com
- pwc.com
- ti.qianxin.com
Actor metadata imported from Malpedia (Fraunhofer FKIE).