Hackers target Pakistani government, bank and telecom provider with China-made malware

An unknown hacker group compromised a Pakistani government app to infect victims with the China-linked Shadowpad malware, researchers have found. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro identified three entities in Pakistan targeted by Shadowpad last year: an unnamed government agency, a state bank and a telecommunications provider. The researchers believe it may have been a supply-chain attack,

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