Security News > 2022 > December > Chinese Hackers Target Middle East Telecoms in Latest Cyber Attacks
2022-12-06 16:08
A malicious campaign targeting the Middle East is likely linked to BackdoorDiplomacy, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group with ties to China. The espionage activity, directed against a telecom company in the region, is said to have commenced on August 19, 2021 through the successful exploitation of ProxyShell flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server. Initial compromise leveraged binaries
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