Security News > 2023 > April > Daggerfly Cyberattack Campaign Hits African Telecom Services Providers

Telecommunication services providers in Africa are the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor at least since November 2022.

The campaign makes use of "Previously unseen plugins from the MgBot malware framework," the cybersecurity company said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

"All of these capabilities would have allowed the attackers to collect a significant amount of information from victim machines," Symantec said.

"The capabilities of these plugins also show that the main goal of the attackers during this campaign was information-gathering."

The disclosure arrives almost a month after SentinelOne detailed a campaign called Tainted Love in Q1 2023 aimed at telecommunication providers in the Middle East.

Two of the victims, which were breached in November 2022, are subsidiaries of a telecom firm in the Middle East region.

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