Notepad++ Hosting Breach Attributed to China-Linked Lotus Blossom Hacking Group

A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++. The attack enabled the state-sponsored hacking group to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed Chrysalis to...

The Chrysalis Backdoor: A Deep Dive into Lotus Blossom’s toolkit

Rapid7 Labs, together with the Rapid7 MDR team, has uncovered a sophisticated campaign attributed to the Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom. Active since 2009, the group is known for its targeted espionage campaigns primarily impacting organizations across Southeast Asia and more recently Central...

Lotus Blossom espionage group targets multiple industries with different versions of Sagerunex and hacking tools

Cisco Talos discovered multiple cyber espionage campaigns that target government, manufacturing, telecommunications and media, delivering Sagerunex and other hacking tools for post-compromise activities. Talos attributes these attacks to the threat actor known as Lotus Blossom. Lotus Blossom has...

Operation Lotus Blossom APT - Elise Malware

Advanced Persistent Threat APT type attacks continue to emerge on a global scale. What makes these attacks deviate from the norm is often the resources required to develop and implement them: time, money, and the knowledge required to create custom pieces of malware to carry out specific, targete...