Tag: China Chopper

Microsoft detects Flax Typhoon hackers using legitimate software to snoop on Taiwanese organizations

Microsoft detects Flax Typhoon hackers using legitimate software to snoop on Taiwanese organizations

Microsoft researchers have identified a nation-state activity group tracked as Flax Typhoon, based in China, that is targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan with the likely intention of performing espionage. Flax Typhoon gains and maintains long-term access to Taiwanese organizations’…

Chinese-backed DragonSpark hackers evade detection with SparkRAT, Golang source code interpretation

Chinese-backed DragonSpark hackers evade detection with SparkRAT, Golang source code interpretation

SentinelLabs disclosed on Tuesday that it had been monitoring recent attacks against East Asian organizations, tracked as DragonSpark, which is highly likely to be backed by a Chinese-speaking actor. The attacks are characterized by using the little-known open-source SparkRAT and…