CactusPete APT Hones Toolset, Resurfaces with New Espionage Targets

The China-based APT known as CactusPete has returned with a new campaign aimed at military and financial targets in Eastern Europe, which is a new geography for the group’s victimology, according to researchers. The group also used a fresh variant of the Bisonal backdoor, which allows the attacke...

CactusPete APT group’s updated Bisonal backdoor

CactusPete also known as Karma Panda or Tonto Team is an APT group that has been publicly known since at least 2013. Some of the groups activities have been previously described in public by multiple sources. We have been investigating and privately reporting on this groups activity for years as...