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Night Dragon is a threat activity and malware designation associated with two distinct but similarly named contexts. Historically, Night Dragon is best known as a cyber-espionage campaign publicly described in 2011 that targeted energy-sector organizations. That activity used compromised VPN accounts for initial access, SQL injection against exposed web servers, remote administration tools for persistent access, pass-the-hash for authenticated movement inside victim networks, file-system browsing through zwShell, staging of stolen data on company web servers prior to download, and defense evasion through disabling antivirus, antispyware, and proxy settings. Night Dragon tooling has also been noted to use software packing. Separately, Night Dragon (夜龙) was introduced in June 2026 as a likely successor Android remote-control kit circulating in a financially motivated criminal ecosystem linked to leaked and modified Flying Eagle infrastructure. This Android platform was advertised with capabilities including credential capture against Chinese payment and banking applications, phishing overlays, remote screen viewing, SMS access, gallery access, audio recording, camera capture, file management, and icon-hiding behavior. Observed infrastructure and lures indicate primary targeting of Chinese users through government-service, financial, adult-content, and social-media themes. Because the same name is used for both a legacy intrusion campaign and a newer Android malware platform, analysts should disambiguate references carefully. The legacy Night Dragon activity aligns with intrusion-set tradecraft focused on enterprise compromise and data theft, while the 2026 Night Dragon platform aligns with financially motivated mobile fraud and device takeover.
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11 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.
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20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A likely successor Android RAT platform introduced after the Flying Eagle code leak, offering remote device control, phishing overlays, password capture for financial apps, black-screen deception, and icon hiding. It appears financially motivated and aimed at Chinese mobile victims.
Copied files to company web servers and later downloaded them, indicating staging via web-accessible infrastructure.
Referenced historically as the campaign in which the Redsip backdoor was described; the report argues Zupdax is a redesign of Redsip, creating a lineage link rather than asserting Night Dragon equals Space Pirates.
Referenced in ATT&CK v10 release notes under 'Group changes'; no operational details provided in this content.
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