{"id":806,"date":"2025-09-30T08:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=806"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:14:10","slug":"phantom-taurus-new-china-linked-hacker-group-hits-governments-with-stealth-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/phantom-taurus-new-china-linked-hacker-group-hits-governments-with-stealth-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Taurus: New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed&nbsp;<strong>Phantom Taurus<\/strong>&nbsp;over the past two-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Phantom Taurus&#8217; main focus areas include ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, geopolitical events, and military operations,&#8221; Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Lior Rochberger&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/phantom-taurus\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. &#8220;The group&#8217;s primary objective is espionage. Its attacks demonstrate stealth, persistence, and an ability to quickly adapt their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/phantom-taurus-new-china-linked-hacker-group-hits-governments-with-stealth-malware\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/09\/phantom-taurus-new-china-linked-hacker.html\">Phantom Taurus: New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Phantom Taurus: New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed&nbsp;Phantom Taurus&nbsp;over the past two-and-a-half years. &#8220;Phantom Taurus&#8217; main focus areas include ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, geopolitical events, and military operations,&#8221; Palo Alto Networks Unit 42&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,13],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malware","tag-40","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}