Elderwood

APT / StateG0066
Origin🇨🇳 China
Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)9
SourceMITRE ATT&CK
State sponsor: ChinaAttribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Private sector, Civil society
Targeted regions: United States · Canada · United Kingdom · Switzerland · Hong Kong · Australia · India · Taiwan · China · Denmark
Also known as:Beijing GroupElderwood GangG0066SIG22SNEAKY PANDASneaky Panda

Vexday analysis

Elderwood — também conhecido como Elderwood Gang, Beijing Group e Sneaky Panda — é um grupo de espionagem cibernética de origem chinesa (identificador MITRE ATT&CK: G0066) suspeito de ter sido responsável pela intrusão à Google em 2009, conhecida como Operação Aurora. O grupo tem como alvos organizações de defesa, fabricantes na cadeia de suprimentos, entidades de direitos humanos e ONGs, além de provedores de serviços de TI. Ao grupo são atribuídas 9 técnicas documentadas no framework MITRE ATT&CK.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity15
Impact: High
T1189ENTRYInitial accessDrive-byCompromiseEXECExecutionExploitation forClient Execution

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 9

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Exploited vulnerabilities

No CVEs attributed to this group in public sources (MITRE ATT&CK). Absence of attribution does not mean absence of activity.

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