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China-Linked Evasive Panda Ran DNS Poisoning Campaign to Deliver MgBot Malware
A China-linked advanced persistent threat APT group has been attributed to a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign in which the adversary poisoned Domain Name System DNS requests to deliver its signature MgBot backdoor in attacks targeting victims in Türkiye, China, and India. The activity,...
Chinese Hackers Using MgBot Malware to Target International NGOs in Mainland China
The advanced persistent threat APT group referred to as Evasive Panda has been observed targeting an international non-governmental organization NGO in Mainland China with malware delivered via update channels of legitimate applications like Tencent QQ. The attack chains are designed to distribut...
Chinese Hackers Using MgBot Malware to Target International NGOs in Mainland China
The advanced persistent threat APT group referred to as Evasive Panda has been observed targeting an international non-governmental organization NGO in Mainland China with malware delivered via update channels of legitimate applications like Tencent QQ. The attack chains are designed to distribut...
Daggerfly Cyberattack Campaign Hits African Telecom Services Providers
Telecommunication services providers in Africa are the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor at least since November 2022. The intrusions have been pinned on a hacking crew tracked by Symantec as Daggerfly, and which is also monitored by the broader cybersecurity...
Chinese Hackers Escalate Attacks Against India and Hong Kong Amid Tensions
An emerging threat actor out of China has been traced to a new hacking campaign aimed at government agencies in India and residents of Hong Kong intending to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes revealed in the latest report shared with The Hacker News. The attacks were...
Chinese APT group targets India and Hong Kong using new variant of MgBot malware
This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura On July 2, we found an archive file with an embedded document pretending to be from the government of India. This file used template injection to drop a malicious template which loaded a variant of Cobalt Strike. One day later, the sam...