Chinese State-Backed Cyber Espionage Targets Southeast Asian Government

An unnamed high-profile government organization in Southeast Asia emerged as the target of a "complex, long-running" Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage operation codenamed Crimson Palace. "The overall goal behind the campaign was to maintain access to the target network for cyberespionage in...

Earth Longzhi Unleashes New ‘Stack Rumbling’ Tactic

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT41s Earth Longzhi launches a new campaign targeting organizations in Asia Pacific using "stack rumbling" to disable security products and install Behinder web shell. To receive real-time threat...

Chinese Hacker Group Earth Longzhi Resurfaces with Advanced Malware Tactics

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking outfit has resurfaced with a new campaign targeting government, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing entities based in Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Fiji after more than six months of no activity. Trend Micro attributed the intrusion set to a cyber...

Chinese Hacker Group Earth Longzhi Resurfaces with Advanced Malware Tactics

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking outfit has resurfaced with a new campaign targeting government, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing entities based in Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Fiji after more than six months of no activity. Trend Micro attributed the intrusion set to a cyber...

Attack on Security Titans: Earth Longzhi Returns With New Tricks

After months of dormancy, Earth Longzhi, a subgroup of advanced persistent threat APT group APT41, has reemerged using new techniques in its infection routine. This blog entry forewarns readers of Earth Longzhi’s resilience as a noteworthy threat...

New "Earth Longzhi" APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders

Entities located in East and Southeast Asia as well as Ukraine have been targeted at least since 2020 by a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, a prolific Chinese advanced persistent threat APT. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which christened the espionage crew Earth Longzhi, said the...

Earth Longzhi: New subgroup of APT41

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Earth Longzhi is running a spearphishing campaign to infect organizations with a payload such as Cobalt Strike loader, Symatic loader, CroxLoader, BigpipeLoader, OutLoader, and other custom hacking tools...

Hack the Real Box: APT41’s New Subgroup Earth Longzhi

We looked into the campaigns deployed by a new subgroup of advanced persistent threat APT group APT41, Earth Longzhi. This entry breaks down the technical details of the campaigns in full as presented at HITCON PEACE 2022 in August...