Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections

Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections | Trend Micro (US) APT & Targeted Attacks

Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to

Target Taiwan Before Elections

During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets. By: Cedric Pernet, Jaromir Horejsi

February 26, 2024

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Introduction

Trend Micro previously published a number of entries discussing the operations of a China-linked threat actor we track as Earth Lusca. The group, which has been active since at least 2020 and has regularly changed its modus operandi, has been known to launch several different campaigns at the same time.

During our monitoring of this…