Are Wild Neutron’s latest attacks related to the zero-day exploit(s) in Hacking Team’s drop?

Both Kaspersky and Symantec released reports this week pointing out the increase in attacks by Wild Neutron (aka Jripbot, Morpho, or Butterfly). WN had gone mostly dormant (or undetected?) since 2013 after hitting Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft using zero-day Java exploits (seeded in the hacked forums of various websites) and the OSX/Pintsized Mac OS…

Researchers at Symantec anti-virus have examined data from over 11 million PCs and correlating the malware signatures to public reports of the zero-day exploits that the malware exploited, they found that the average time a zero-day exploit was held secret was over 10 months.

Symantec has provided details on an attack system known as The Elderwood Project that appears to be sponsored by the Chinese military complex. The first instance of this attack vector occurred in 2009 when Google computers were comprised by a group using a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer. it was determined that the group was…