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.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| OSINT | Chinastrats |
| OSINT | Patchwork |
| OSINT | Monsoon |
| OSINT | Sarit |
| OSINT | Dropping Elephant |
| OSINT | APT-C-09 |
| OSINT | ZINC EMERSON |
| OSINT | ATK11 |
| OSINT | G0040 |
| OSINT | Orange Athos |
| OSINT | Thirsty Gemini |
| OSINT | Hangover Group |
| OSINT | Operation Hangover |
Sectors: Private sector, Military, Finance, Diplomacy
Victim countries: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
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Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to QUILTED TIGER. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
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Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.