Chinese Hackers Use ShadowPad Against South American Diplomatic Entities

On Monday, Microsoft attributed a China-based cyberespionage actor to a set of attacks targeting diplomatic entities in South America. Its Security Intelligence team is tracking the cluster under the emerging name DEV-0147. ShadowPad is said to be used by the threat actor to infiltrate targets and maintain persistent access. Chinese adversarial collectives with links to the Ministry […]

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