From The Hacker News – Over 1,000 SOHO Devices Hacked in China-linked LapDogs Cyber Espionage Campaign

From The Hacker News – Over 1,000 SOHO Devices Hacked in China-linked LapDogs Cyber Espionage Campaign

Threat hunters have discovered a network of more than 1,000 compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices that have been used to facilitate a prolonged cyber espionage infrastructure campaign for China-nexus hacking groups. The Operational Relay Box (ORB) network has been codenamed LapDogs by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team. "The LapDogs network has a high concentration of victims
From The Hacker News – PUBLOAD and Pubshell Malware Used in Mustang Panda’s Tibet-Specific Attack

From The Hacker News – PUBLOAD and Pubshell Malware Used in Mustang Panda’s Tibet-Specific Attack

A China-linked threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been attributed to a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the Tibetan community. The spear-phishing attacks leveraged topics related to Tibet, such as the 9th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet (WPCT), China's education policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), and a recently published book by the 14th Dalai Lama,