VERY IMPORTANT

Let’s examine a couple of interesting delivery techniques from an APT active for the past several years, the Spring Dragon APT. A paper released today by our colleagues at Palo Alto Networks presented a portion of data on this crew under the label “the Lotus Blossom Operation“, likely named for the debug string present in much of the "Elise" codebase since at least 2012: “d:\lstudio\projects\lotus\…”.