Security News > 2021 > July > Kaspersky: LuminousMoth spearphishing campaign hit 1,500 targets in Asia
Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a widespread cyberespionage campaign that targets government offices in Asia; the cybersecurity attack starts with a spearphishing email.
Kaspersky analysts explained the LuminousMoth attack on the SecureList blog and suggested that the lopsided numbers between the two countries could be due to an additional and unknown infection vector used only in the Philippines.
Aseel Kayal, security researcher with Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team, said in a press release that the scale of the attack is rare.
Kaspersky security researchers believe with medium to high confidence that the HoneyMyte threat group is behind the attack.
The group is a Chinese-speaking threat actor and seems to be interested in gathering geopolitical and economic intelligence in Asia and Africa.
Mark Lechtik, senior security researcher with Kaspersky's GReAT team, said in a press release that this new activity seems to support the trend of Chinese-speaking threat actors re-tooling and producing new and unknown malware implants.