Experienced China-based hacking group has new backdoor tool, researchers say

The Chinese cyber-espionage group known as Nickel or APT15 used a previously unseen backdoor to attack ministries of foreign affairs in Central and South America, researchers reported Wednesday. In the campaign that ran from late 2022 into early 2023, hackers targeted a government finance department and an unnamed corporation as well as the foreign affairs

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