China-Linked Hackers Infiltrate East Asian Firm for 3 Years Using F5 Devices

A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage actor has been attributed as behind a prolonged attack against an unnamed organization located in East Asia for a period of about three years, with the adversary establishing persistence using legacy F5 BIG-IP appliances and using it as an internal command-and-control (C&C) for defense evasion purposes.
Cybersecurity company Sygnia, which responded to

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