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These hackers have spent months hiding out in company networks undetected

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Dissent

Danny Palmer reports:

A cyber-espionage campaign is using new malware to infiltrate targets around the world including organisations in media, finance, construction and engineering.

Detailed by cybersecurity company Symantec, the attacks against organisations in the US, Japan, Taiwan and China are being conduced with the aim of stealing information and have been linked to an espionage group known as Palmerworm – aka BlackTech – which has a history of campaigns going back to 2013.

Read more on ZDNet.


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