The Lab52 team has analysed a cyber campaign in which attackers deploy a new variant of the PlugX malware. Both the infection chain and the various artefacts used in the cyberattack share multiple similarities with the SmugX campaign, attributed to threat actors Red Delta and Mustang Panda, allegedly linked to the Chinese government. This time, […]
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Let’s talk about the malware used by Mustang Panda
In the last post, Lab52 covered the new Mustang Panda’s campaing against Australia. Now is time to talk about the malware used by the APT group Mustang Panda in said campaing. Indeed, the malware used to commit the attack is not enterely new; there are previous reports from TrendMicro and Talos where similar tactics and […]
New Mustang Panda’s campaing against Australia
AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States) is a strategic military alliance between these territories that became a reality in 2021, whose main objective is to build nuclear-powered submarines to counter the threat from China in the Indo-Pacific region. This agreement also includes the sharing of cyber capabilities and other submarine technologies. Some sources point out that this […]