Darwin's Favorite APT Group September 03, 2014 by Ned Moran, Mike Oppenheim Threat Intelligence, Botnets, Targeted Attack Introduction The attackers referred to as APT12 (also known as IXESHE, DynCalc, and DNSCALC) recently started a new campaign targeting organizations in Japan and Taiwan APT12 is believed to be a cyber espionage group thought to have links to the Chinese People's Liberation Army APT12's targets are consistent with larger People's Republic of China (PRC) goals Intrusions and campaigns conducted by this group are inline with PRC goals and selfinterest in Taiwan Additionally, the new campaigns we uncovered further highlight the correlation between APT groups ceasing and retooling operations after media exposure, as APT12 used the same strategy after compromising the New York Times in Oct 2012 Much like Darwin's theory of biological evolution, APT12 been forced to evolve and adapt in order to maintain its mission The new campaign marks the first APT12 activity publicly reported since Arbor Networks released their blog Illuminating The Etumbot APT Backdoor FireEye refers to the Etumbot backdoor as RIPTIDE Since the release of the Arbor blog post, FireEye has observed APT12 use a modified RIPTIDE backdoor that we call HIGHTIDE This is the second

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Darwin's Favorite APT Group September 03, 2014   by Ned Moran, Mike Oppenheim   Threat Intelligence, Botnets, Targeted Attack Introduction The attackers referred to as APT12 (also known as IXESHE, DynCalc, and DNSCALC) recently started a new campaign targeting organizations in Japan and Taiwan  APT12 is believed to be a cyber espionage group thought to have links to the Chinese People's Liberation Army  APT12's targets are consistent with larger People's Republic of China (PRC) goals  Intrusions and campaigns conducted by this group are inline with PRC goals and selfinterest in Taiwan  Additionally, the new campaigns we uncovered further highlight the correlation between APT groups ceasing and retooling operations after media exposure, as APT12 used the same strategy after compromising the New York Times in Oct 2012  Much like Darwin's theory of biological evolution, APT12 been forced to evolve and adapt in order to maintain its mission  The new campaign marks the first APT12 activity publicly reported since Arbor Networks released their blog  Illuminating The Etumbot APT Backdoor   FireEye refers to the Etumbot backdoor as RIPTIDE  Since the release of the Arbor blog post, FireEye has observed APT12 use a modified RIPTIDE backdoor that we call HIGHTIDE  This is the second

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