Cyber threats in Southeast Asia pinned on China-affiliated hacking groups
The Cybereason Nocturnus Team investigated clusters of intrusions detected targeting the telecommunications industry across Southeast Asia. Credit: Dreamstime
Hacking groups with ties to China have been identified by US-based cyber security solutions vendor Cybereason as being behind a series of cyber activity in the ASEAN region.
The findings come after the Cybereason Nocturnus and Incident Response teams proactively hunted for various threat actors trying to leverage similar techniques to those used in the Hafnium attacks targeting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities earlier this year.
In the beginning of 2021, the Cybereason Nocturnus Team investigated clusters of intrusions detected targeting the telecommunications industry across Southeast Asia.
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