Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management
Researchers: Recently Uncovered Hacking Group Has Been Operating Since 2014 Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 23, 2020A hacking group that appears to have ties to the government of China has been targeting victims in India and Hong Kong, according to a report released this week by the security firm Malwarebytes.
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This unnamed advanced persistent threat group appears to have been operating in secret since 2014, according to the report. The group's recent activity has targeted two areas that have recently found themselves in conflict with China.
The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team has attributed these recent attacks with "moderate confidence" to the unnamed hacking group, which uses a little-known Trojan called MGBot as part of its toolset.
Malwarebytes cited the ongoing tensions between India, Hong Kong and the Chinese government as one reason for linking the APT group's activities to China. The attacker's social engineering tactics included using fraudulent government documents and messaging designed to encourage the targets in India and Hong Kong to open the malicious attachments to install malware, according to the report.
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