FireEye has discovered a campaign leveraging the recently announced zero - day CVE-2013 - 3893 . This campaign , which we have labeled Operation DeputyDog , began as early as August 19 , 2013 and appears to have targeted organizations in Japan . FireEye Labs has been continuously monitoring the activities of the threat actor responsible for this campaign . Analysis based on our Dynamic Threat Intelligence cluster shows that this current campaign leveraged command and control infrastructure that is related to the infrastructure used in the attack on Bit9 . ;