In the latest breaches, threat groups compromised telecommunications firms in at least two Asian nations, installing backdoors and possibly eavesdropping or pre-positioning for a future attack. At least three cyber-espionage groups have compromised telecommunications operators in multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region, placing backdoors inside the communications providers’ networks, stealing credentials, and using custom malware to gain control and compromise other systems, according to analyses published by two cybersecurity firms in the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tools from a trio of China-linked groups \u2014 Fireant, Neeedleminer, and Firefly \u2014 were used to compromise telecommunications companies in at least two Asian nations, according to an analysis published by technology giant Broadcom’s Symantec cybersecurity division. The groups \u2014 also known as Mustang Panda, Nomad Panda, and Naikon, respectively \u2014 previously have been associated with widespread attacks against a variety of countries in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\nChina-Linked Espionage Groups Target Asian Telecoms (darkreading.com)<\/a>: China-Linked Cyber-Espionage Teams Target Asian Telecoms<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the latest breaches, threat groups compromised telecommunications firms in at least two Asian nations, installing backdoors and possibly eavesdropping or pre-positioning for a future attack. At least three cyber-espionage groups have compromised telecommunications operators in multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region, placing backdoors inside the communications providers’ networks, stealing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,13,50],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-31","tag-china","tag-credential-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}