Chinese hacking group targets Southeast Asian governments with data-stealing malware

Chinese hacking group targets Southeast Asian governments with data-stealing malware
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2019-10-2 15:08

A threat group responsible for a series of malware-based espionage attacks in Singapore and Cambodia has been increasingly targeting the Southeast Asian government sector to steal confidential data, new research indicates.

The findings disclosed by cybersecurity firm Check Point Research — show the operations were carried out over a period of seven months between December 2018 and June 2019, and leveraged spear phishing tricks to lure victims into opening dubious emails that downloaded malware on to their machines. The hacking group — dubbed Rancor — enagaged in clever social engineering tactics by sending malicious documents from real email addresses belonging…

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