Security News > 2023 > December > Chinese Hackers Using SugarGh0st RAT to Target South Korea and Uzbekistan
2023-12-01 10:49
A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a malicious campaign that targets the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users with a remote access trojan called SugarGh0st RAT. The activity, which commenced no later than August 2023, leverages two different infection sequences to deliver the malware, which is a customized variant of Gh0st RAT 
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