{"id":314,"date":"2024-06-27T04:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=314"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:34:39","slug":"chinese-cyberspies-employ-ransomware-in-attacks-for-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/chinese-cyberspies-employ-ransomware-in-attacks-for-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Cyberspies Employ Ransomware in Attacks for Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyberespionage groups have been using ransomware as a tactic to make attack attribution more challenging, distract defenders, or for a financial reward as a secondary goal to data theft. A joint report from SentinelLabs and Recorded Future analysts presents the case of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/chinese-hackers-use-dns-over-https-for-linux-malware-communication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChamelGang<\/a>, a suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) that has been using the CatB ransomware strain in attacks that impact high-profile organizations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/chinese-cyberspies-employ-ransomware-in-attacks-for-diversion\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/chinese-cyberspies-employ-ransomware-in-attacks-for-diversion\/\">Chinese Cyberspies Employ Ransomware in Attacks for Diversion (bleepingcomputer.com)<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Chinese Cyberspies Employ Ransomware in Attacks for Diversion<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyberespionage groups have been using ransomware as a tactic to make attack attribution more challenging, distract defenders, or for a financial reward as a secondary goal to data theft. A joint report from SentinelLabs and Recorded Future analysts presents the case of\u00a0ChamelGang, a suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[31,71,13],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-ransomware","tag-31","tag-chamelgang","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}