Security News > 2020 > July > Chinese Hackers Escalate Attacks Against India and Hong Kong Amid Tensions

An emerging threat actor out of China has been traced to a new hacking campaign aimed at government agencies in India and residents of Hong Kong intending to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes revealed in the latest report shared with The Hacker News.

The attacks were observed during the first week of July, coinciding the passage of controversial security law in Hong Kong and India's ban of 59 China-made apps over privacy concerns, weeks after a violent skirmish along the Indo-China border.

Attributing the attack with "Moderate confidence" to a new Chinese APT group, Malwarebytes said they were able to track their activities based on the "Unique phishing attempts" designed to compromise targets in India and Hong Kong.

"The lures used in this campaign indicate that the threat actor may be targeting the Indian government and individuals in Hong Kong, or at least those who are against the new security law issued by China," the firm said.

In the third version seen in the wild on July 5, the researchers observed the APT using an entirely different embedded document with a statement about Hong Kong from the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson allegedly promising to admit three million Hong Kongers to the country.

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