Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack

Published

2013-05-13 16:00

Collected

2026-07-05 06:13

---
id: 3799
title: "Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2013/05/13/elderwood-and-the-department-of-labor-hack/"
published_at: "2013-05-13T16:00:10Z"
tags: ["zero-day", "apt", "threat-analysis", "attribution", "elderwood", "exploit-kit", "department-of-labor"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3799"
lang: en
---

# Elderwood and the Department of Labor Hack

## Summary

A comparative analysis argues the Department of Labor hack was not Elderwood's work, citing copied exploit code, redirect-based hosting, and custom fingerprinting diverging from Elderwood tradecraft.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2013-05-13T16:00:10Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2013/05/13/elderwood-and-the-department-of-labor-hack/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3799