Shipping companies, medical laboratories in Asia targeted in espionage campaign

Several shipping companies and medical laboratories in an unspecified Asian country have been targeted in an ongoing espionage campaign that began in October, according to researchers from from Symantec.

The hackers behind the campaign — which the researchers named Hydrochasma — have no ties to any group Symantec has researched before. 

The company is not publicly identifying the target nation, Brigid O Gorman, senior intelligence analyst with the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, told The Record.

The researchers do not know …

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