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Chinese APT Group Reportedly Develops Custom Backdoor @prajeetspeaks) • June 9, 2021     Full infection chain (Source: Check Point Research) Check Point researchers have uncovered an ongoing campaign by a Chinese advanced persistent threat group that has spent the last three years testing and refining a custom backdoor in its arsenal to conduct espionage campaigns targeting governments in Southeast Asia. The group, dubbed SharpPanda, uses spear-phishing attacks to gain initial access and leverage old Microsoft Offi...

Cyber espionage campaign targets Southeast Asian government Cyber espionage campaign targets Southeast Asian government The attackers developed a previously unknown backdoor into the Windows software running on the PCs of victims. Credit: Dreamstime A Chinese threat group has been fingered by researchers at Check Point Software as the culprit behind a new cyber espionage weapon after the cyber security provider identified and blocked an ongoing surveillance operation targeting an unnamed Southeast Asian government.  It is believed that over the course of three years t...

By Kevin Townsend on June 03, 2021 Newly discovered cyber weapon uses elaborate multi-stage infection-chain to make detection and analysis difficult Researchers have discovered a new cyber espionage weapon they believe was developed and is used by a China-based APT group they have named SharpPanda. A previously unknown Windows backdoor enables remote access and the collection of considerable live data – but only during Chinese working hours. An ongoing campaign is targeting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a Southeast Asian country. It starts with the spear-phishing email delivery of a w...

By Ionut Arghire on June 01, 2021 Exploits for vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Office suite were the most popular among cyber-attackers during the first quarter of this year, according to a new Kaspersky report. Microsoft Office exploits accounted for more than half (59%) of the observed exploits, with CVE-2017-11882 (a stack buffer overflow in the Equation Editor component) remaining the most commonly targeted vulnerability. Additionally, exploits for vulnerabilities such as CVE-2015-2523 (use-after-free in Excel) and CVE-2018-0802 (memory corruption leading to remote code execution) were ...

New Chinese Malware Targeted Russia's Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. The phishing attack, which singled out a general director working at the Rubin Design Bureau, leveraged the infamous "Royal Road" Rich Text Format (RTF) weaponizer to deliver a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed " PortDoor," according to Cybereason's Nocturnus threat intell...