Security News > 2025 > March > UAT-5918 Targets Taiwan's Critical Infrastructure Using Web Shells and Open-Source Tools

2025-03-21 13:54
Threat hunters have uncovered a new threat actor named UAT-5918 that has been attacking critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan since at least 2023. "UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to conduct post-compromise activities to establish persistence in victim
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