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A New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports:

Every software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate application to push out their malware to hundreds or potentially thousands of victims, represents a disturbing new outbreak of a cybersecurity scourge. But when that supply chain attack is pulled off by a mysterious group of hackers, abusing a Microsoft trusted software model to make their malware pose as legitimate, it represents a dangerous and potentially new adversary worth watching.

Today, researchers on the Threat Hunter Team at Broadcom-owned security firm Symantec revealed that they’d detected a supply chain attack carried out by a hacker group that they’ve newly named CarderBee.

Read more at WIRED.

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