China-Linked Budworm Targeting Middle Eastern Telco and Asian Government Agencies

Government and telecom entities have been subjected to a new wave of attacks by a China-linked threat actor tracked as Budworm using an updated malware toolset. The intrusions, targeting a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization and an Asian government, took place in August 2023, with the...

Budworm Attackers Return with New Espionage Strikes Against the United States

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Budworm espionage group exploited Log4j vulnerabilities to jeopardize the Apache Tomcat service by integrating several custom and publicly available tools to exfiltrate sensitive information...

Budworm Hackers Resurface with New Espionage Attacks Aimed at U.S. Organization

An advanced persistent threat APT actor known as Budworm targeted a U.S.-based entity for the first time in more than six years, according to latest research. The attack was aimed at an unnamed U.S. state legislature, the Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software, said in a report...