BRONZE SPRING
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Techniques
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Reports
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Profile
BRONZE SPRING is a threat group that CTU researchers assess with high confidence operates on behalf of China in the theft of intellectual property from defense, engineering, pharmaceutical and technology companies. The threat group typically uses scan-and-exploit for initial access, deploys the China Chopper webshell for remote execution and persistence, and creates RAR archives with a '.jpg' file extension for data exfiltration. In July 2020 the U.S. Department of Justice indicted two Chinese hackers CTU researchers assess are members of the BRONZE SPRING threat group. The Department of Justice allege these hackers were responsible for compromising networks of hundreds of organisations and individuals in the U.S. and abroad since 2009, and that exfiltrated data would be passed to the Chinese Ministry of State Security or sold for financial gain.
Relevance for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
high
Assessment based on target countries according to MISP Galaxy (CFR Cyber Operations Tracker).
Target sectors according to source
- Information technology
- Medical
- Civil engineering
- Business
- Education
- Gaming
- Energy
- Pharmaceuticals
- Defense industrial base
Target countries according to source United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, United Kingdom
Aliases
- UNC302