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The China-aligned APT (advanced persistent threat) group known as Bronze Starlight was seen targeting the Southeast Asian gambling industry with malware signed using a valid certificate used by the Ivacy VPN provider.

Southeast Asia's gambling industry has been subjected to cyberattacks by Chinese threat actors involving the exploitation of Microsoft Edge, McAfee VirusScan, and Adobe Creative Cloud executables to facilitate malware infections, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

This issue of the ESET APT Activity Report features an overview of the activities of selected APT groups as analyzed by ESET Research in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023.