China-linked espionage actor blamed for global Barracuda ESG attacks

Mandiant, which led the incident response investigation, expressed a "high degree of confidence" that a threat group linked to China is using the zero-day to target and exfiltrate email data from government officials and academics working on topics of interest to Beijing.

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