
Reference Material: How an unsophisticated malware attack became India’s biggest state-sponsored cybercrime

A complete chronology of the seven-year-long cyberattack (and it’s slow, horrific unravelling) carried out by the same threat actor against 16 human rights activists, who were resultantly incarcerated without trial under the UAPA for the alleged orchestration of the Bhima Koregaon violence at the start of 2018 and a made up plot to assassinate the prime minister of India. Christened by security firm Sentinel in 2022 after a series of tech investigations starting in 2019 with the discovery of a Trojan horse on researcher Rona Wilson’s seized system, the notorious ModifiedElephant has been targeting activists and HRDs in India since at least 2012 using extremely rudimentary means of surveillance, remote access, and file delivery, and worked directly with the Pune police (using IPS officer Shivaji Pawar’s contact information as its backway into the hacked systems) to frame members of the BK16. Worse still, the Pune FSL also protected ModifiedElephant, omitting…
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