Pandas with a Soul: Chinese Espionage Attacks Against Southeast Asian Government Entities

Executive summary

In 2021, Check Point Research published a report on a previously undisclosed toolset used by Sharp Panda, a long-running Chinese cyber-espionage operation targeting Southeast Asian government entities. Since then, we have continued to track the use of these tools across several operations in multiple Southeast Asian countries, in particular nations with similar territorial claims or strategic infrastructure projects such as Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Key findings:

• In late 2022, a campaign with an initial infection vector similar …

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