Flax Typhoon using legitimate software to quietly access Taiwanese organizations

Flax Typhoon using legitimate software to quietly access Taiwanese organizations | Microsoft Security Blog August 24, 2023

Flax Typhoon using legitimate software to quietly

access Taiwanese organizations

microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/08/24/flax-typhoon-using-legitimate-software-to-quietly-access-taiwanese-organizations

By Microsoft Threat Intelligence

Summary

Microsoft has identified a nation-state activity group tracked as Flax Typhoon, based in China, that is targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan with the likely intention of performing espionage. Flax Typhoon gains and maintains long-term access to Taiwanese organizations’ networks with minimal use of malware, relying on tools built into the operating system, along with some normally benign software to quietly rema…