Hong Kong Government Organizations Were Compromised by Hacker for a Year
A hacker had breached the Hong Kong government organizations for at least a year undetected, researchers said.
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A hacker had breached the Hong Kong government organizations for at least a year undetected, researchers said.
Over the past months, Chinese state-sponsored threat group Winnti has been observed targeting governmental entities in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong.
The Winnti APT was spotted dropping several variants of Spyder Loader and other malware as part of the so-called Operation Cuckoobees.
Government organizations in Hong Kong were targeted with malware as part of an intelligence-gathering campaign that lasted for more than a year.
Researchers at Symantec have uncovered cyberattacks attributed to the China-linked espionage actor APT41 (a.k.a. Winnti) that breached government agencies in Hong Kong and remained undetected for a year in some cases.