Operation Sea Elephant aims to spy on Chinese scientific research achievements in the field of ocean to ensure the dominance of a certain country in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
In mid-2024 QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center researchers discovered the South Asian direction attack collection numbered UTG-Q-011, which, despite the fact that the collection’s subsequent plug-ins differed too much from the CNC, had the same backdoor and the same codebase as used by the CNC group, and ultimately treated UTG-Q-011 as a subset of the CNC for the purpose of research. This paper concludes with disclosures on this topic.
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Source: QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center
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