Chinese hackers target govt agencies globally


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The researchers tagged TA428, a Chinese-speaking APT group, behind the series of attacks using six backdoor malware…reports Asian Lite News China-based hackers attacked military industrial plants, research institutes, government agencies and ministries in several countries and were able to even hijack the IT infrastructure of some, taking control of systems used to manage security solutions, a new report has revealed. Researchers at cyber-security firm Kaspersky detected a wave of targeted attacks on military industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in several Eastern European countries and Afghanistan. “In the course of our research, we were able to identify over a dozen...