{"id":933,"date":"2026-03-05T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=933"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:55:23","slug":"chinese-state-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-malware-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/chinese-state-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-malware-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state hackers target telcos with new malware toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A China-linked advanced persistent threat actor\u00a0tracked as UAT-9244\u00a0has been targeting telecommunication service providers in South America since 2024, compromising Windows, Linux, and network-edge devices. According to Cisco Talos researchers, the adversary is closely associated with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/chinese-famoussparrow-hackers-deploy-upgraded-malware-in-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FamousSparrow<\/a>\u00a0and Tropic Trooper hacker groups, but is tracked as a separate activity cluster. This assessment has high confidence and is based on similar tooling,\u00a0tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs),\u00a0and victimology observed in attacks attributed to the threat actors.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/chinese-state-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-malware-toolkit\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/chinese-state-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-malware-toolkit\/\">Chinese state hackers target telcos with new malware toolkit<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Chinese state hackers target telcos with new malware toolkit<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A China-linked advanced persistent threat actor\u00a0tracked as UAT-9244\u00a0has been targeting telecommunication service providers in South America since 2024, compromising Windows, Linux, and network-edge devices. According to Cisco Talos researchers, the adversary is closely associated with the\u00a0FamousSparrow\u00a0and Tropic Trooper hacker groups, but is tracked as a separate activity cluster. This assessment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[72,13],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-infrastructure","category-malware","tag-72","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}