Blackhat 22: Charged by an Elephant
An APT Fabricating Evidence to Throw You In Jail
with Tom Hegel
Read the Paper.
ModifiedElephant is responsible for targeted attacks on human rights activists,
human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India with the objective of conducting espionage and plant incriminating digital evidence. We follow up on Arsenal Consulting’s excellent forensic investigation to describe the broader threat actor’s activities as early as 2012
Read the Coverage.
“These guys are not going after terrorists. They’re going after human rights defenders and journalists. And it’s not right.”
WORKER AT AN EMAIL PROVIDER WHO SHARED EVIDENCE LINKING POLICE TO THE MODIFIED ELEPHANT HACKING CAMPAIGN
Watch the Talk.
“...This talk focuses on the activities of ModifiedElephant, a threat actor operating for at least a decade with ties to the commercial surveillance industry. More importantly, we'll discuss how they've gone about incriminating activists who are locked up to this day despite forensic reports that show the evidence was planted. And if that's not concerning enough, we'll show how multiple regional threat actors were going after these same victims prior to their arrest...”