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Cyber Espionage on Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Chinese-speaking Hacker Group
By gmcdouga
Excerpt
Check Point Research (CPR) detects an ongoing cyber espionage operation targeting the Afghan government. Attributed to a Chinese-speaking hacker group, the threat actors impersonated the Office of the President of Afghanistan to infiltrate the Afghan National Security Council (NSC) and used Dropbox to mask their activities. CPR believes that this is the latest in a longer-running operation that dates as far back as 2014, where Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are also victims.
Threat actors send a dupe email urging action on an upcoming press conference hosted by the NSC Threat actors use Dropbox to go undetected, leveraging the…
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