QUILTED TIGER
Suspected sponsor: India · ATT&CK G00400
APAC targets
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Techniques
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Incidents
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News · 30d
Profile
Also known as: APT-C-09, ATK11, Chinastrats, Dropping Elephant, G0040, Hangover Group, MONSOON, Operation Hangover, Orange Athos, Patchwork, Sarit, Thirsty Gemini, ZINC EMERSON
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.
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ATT&CK techniques · 41
Reconnaissance
Resource Development
Execution
Privilege Escalation
Stealth
Defense Impairment
Credential Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
Command and Control
Incidents attributed
- No incident in the register is attributed to this actor.
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this actor yet.
Targets
Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
Sectors: Diplomacy, Finance, Military, Private sector
Relevance to the EU
EU relevance: Low
No EU member state among its known victims and no overlap with EU projects
No EU cooperation projects recorded in its target countries.