Tracking Elirks Variants in Japan: Similarities to Previous Attacks
Unit 42 links new Elirks backdoor variants attacking Japanese organizations to 2012 Taiwan attacks, delivered via spear-phishing PDFs exploiting Adobe Flash CVE-2011-0611.
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Malware
Elirks
- Mentions · 7d0
- Mentions · 30d0
- All mentions2
- First seenAug 17, 2026
- Last mentionedAug 17, 2026
Timeline
2 articles · newest firstMILE TEA: Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Asia Pacific Businesses and Government Agencies
Unit 42 names MILE TEA, a cyber-espionage campaign since 2011 targeting Japanese and Taiwanese businesses and government agencies with e-ticket phishing lures and Elirks-family malware.
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Related CVEs
by mentions- CVE-2011-061199%—Remote Code Execution in Adobe Flash Player via Crafted Flash Content
Appears with
- Palo Alto Networksorganization · 2
- Palo Alto Networksvendor · 2
- Scarlet Mimicthreat actor · 1
- PlugXmalware · 1
- FakeMmalware · 1
- Micrassmalware · 1
- Logedrutmalware · 1
- MILE TEAthreat actor · 1
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