Broadcom’s security subsidiary Symantec has named a China-linked hacking gang known as “APT 10” and “Cicada” as the probable source of a year-long attack on Japanese interests around the world.
Symantec’s analysis of the campaign detailed how APT 10 used custom malware named Backdoor.Hartip, plus more prosaic methods such as DLL side-loading and the ZeroLogon vuln that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency considered sufficiently serious to justify an unusual hurry-up-and-patch-ASAP warning notice.
Cicada may even have used those tools within China, an unusual act as criminal hacking gangs are generally happiest operating outside their own territory. Symantec suggests Cicada did so because its mission was to hit Japanese companies’ operations around the world and suck out data about their operations – e ..
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