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By Ionut Arghire on April 29, 2021 A cyber-espionage group believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government has been observed targeting military organizations in Southeast Asia in attacks involving previously undocumented malware, Bitdefender reported on Wednesday. Linked to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over half a decade ago, the advanced persistent threat (APT) was revealed last year to have conducted a five-year stealth campaign against targets in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei. The group has been known to focus on governmen...

Hackers caught targeting Vietnam government portals By Luu Quy   April 10, 2021 | 11:49 am GMT+7 The National Cyber Security Center said it has discovered and foiled a number of attempted cyberattacks on Vietnamese government portals by the China-linked Cycldek hacker group. It said the advanced persistent threat (APT) hacker group is also known as Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT27, and 1937CN. The Department of Information Security joined hands with Internet service providers to block multiple attacks in March after receiving information from the center that Cycldek was trying to penetrate...

Hackers From China Target Vietnamese Military and Government A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam. The attacks have been attributed with low confidence to the advanced persistent threat (APT) called Cycldek (or Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes), which is known for using spear-phishing techniques to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast Asia, India, and the U.S. at least since 2013. According to researchers from Kaspersky, the offensive, which ...

Researchers said the FoundCore malware represents a big step forward when it comes to evasion. An advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military entities in Vietnam has been discovered that delivered a remote-access tool (RAT) for carrying out espionage operations, researchers said. Further analysis suggested that this campaign was conducted by a group related to a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Cycldek (a.k.a. Goblin Panda, APT 27 and Conimes), according to Kaspersky researchers, who added that the group has been active since at least 2013. The...

By Ionut Arghire on April 05, 2021 China-linked cyber-espionage group Cycldek is showing increasing sophistication in a series of recent attacks targeting government and military entities in Vietnam, according to a report from anti-malware vendor Kaspersky. Active since at least 2013 and also referred to as Goblin Panda and Conimes, Cycldek is known for the active targeting of governments in Southeast Asia, and their preference for targets in Vietnam. In June last year, the group was revealed to have used a piece of custom malware to exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems, a clear sign of e...