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Chinese APT Group Reportedly Develops Custom Backdoor @prajeetspeaks) • June 9, 2021     Full infection chain (Source: Check Point Research) Check Point researchers have uncovered an ongoing campaign by a Chinese advanced persistent threat group that has spent the last three years testing and refining a custom backdoor in its arsenal to conduct espionage campaigns targeting governments in Southeast Asia. The group, dubbed SharpPanda, uses spear-phishing attacks to gain initial access and leverage old Microsoft Office vulnerabilities together with a chain of in-memory loaders to attempt to install a previously unknown backdoor on victims’ machines. Researchers note that the first stage of the infection chain s command-and-control servers is hosted by two different cloud services, located in Asia, in Hong Kong and Malaysia. The backdoor command-and-control server is hosted on Zenlayer, a U.S.-based p

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