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Stating that the DanderSpritz post-exploitation framework contained four different Windows EoP modules, two of which were zero-days at the time of its development in 2013, Check Point said one of the zero-days - dubbed "EpMo" - was silently patched by Microsoft "with no apparent CVE-ID" in May 2017 in response to the Shadow Brokers leak.
election staff with spear-phishing emails containing links that would download a Python-based implant hosted on GitHub, allowing an attacker to upload and download files as well as execute arbitrary commands. Jian is said to have been replicated in 2014 and put in operation since at least 2015 until the underlying flaw was patched by Microsoft in 2017.ĪPT31, a state-sponsored hacking collective, is alleged to conduct reconnaissance operations at the behest of the Chinese Government, specializing in intellectual property theft and credential harvesting, with recent campaigns targeting U.S. Timeline of the events detailing the story of EpMe / Jian / CVE-2017-0005 The flaw was reported to Microsoft by Lockheed Martin's Computer Incident Response Team.Ĭheck Point has named the cloned variant "Jian" after a double-edged straight sword used in China during the last 2,500 years, referencing its origins as an attack tool developed by the Equation Group that was then weaponized to serve as a "double-edged sword" to attack U.S. Kaspersky called the group the "crown creator of cyberespionage." An Unknown Privilege Escalation Exploitįirst revealed in March 2017, CVE-2017-0005 is a security vulnerability in the Windows Win32k component that could potentially allow elevation of privileges (EoP) in systems running Windows XP and up to Windows 8. The Equation Group, so-called by researchers from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky in February 2015, has been linked to a string of attacks affecting "tens of thousands of victims" as early as 2001, with some of the registered command-and-control servers dating back to 1996. "APT31 had access to EpMe's files, both their 32-bits and 64-bits versions, more than two years before the Shadow Brokers leak." "The caught-in-the-wild exploit of CVE-2017-0005, a zero-day attributed by Microsoft to the Chinese APT31 (aka Zirconium), is in fact a replica of an Equation Group exploit codenamed 'EpMe,'" Check Point researchers Eyal Itkin and Itay Cohen said.
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