MirrorFace targets a political party in Japan – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

This week, the ESET research team published their findings about a spearphishing campaign that the Chinese-speaking threat actor MirrorFace launched in Japan and that mainly focused on members of a specific Japanese political party. The campaign – which ESET Research has named Operation LiberalFace and which occurred in the lead-up to the House of Councillors elections in July 2022 – involved the group's flagship backdoor LODEINFO. The backdoor, which is the group's s proprietary malware deployed exclusively against targets in …

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