Operation Soft Cell News Today

With Chinas economy foundering, its likely to carry out more aggressive cyber espionage campaigns over the next year, designed to steal foreign intellectual property, according to a new report.

Middle Eastern telecommunications providers have been targeted in a new cyberespionage campaign associated with Operation Soft Cell, which has been led by Chinese state-sponsored threat operation Gallium, reports The Hacker News.

The primary victims so far have been employees of telcos in the Middle East, who were hit with custom backdoors via the cloud, in a likely precursor to a broader attack.

The growing use of mobile devices for MFA and the proliferation of 5G and VoIP in general could result in more attacks in future, experts say.