At the beginning of this year, diplomats in Southeast Asia were focused on a campaign in a cyber industry, which, according to Google, was likely to support operations in accordance with China’s strategic interests.
Attacks, using social engineering and malware masked as a harmless software update, are attributed to the UNC6384 group connected in China, said Google Intelligence Google Inc. on Monday Monday The term “UNC” applies to a hacker activity that is connected, but is not yet categorized under another group.
According to Patrick WhitSell, a senior security engineer of Google, Malware downloaded about twenty victims. While Google did not specify the nationalities of the affected diplomats, WhitSell said Bloomberg News in an interview that he was very sure that the attacker is “aligned China”. These people can be either inside the government or the external supplier, he added.
The message, describing Google’s findings in March, increases the tension between the US and China along the cyber security lines. Microsoft Corp. Last month, he warned that hackers sponsored by the Chinese state were using shortcomings in their software to divide into institutions around the world, while the government in Beijing has claimed that US spies are launching cyber attacks on Chinese military society through further vulnerability of Microsoft. China has also recently questioned the safety of AI chips on NVIDIA CORP.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not respond to the request for comment.
Google said hackers violated Wi-Fi network networks and then misused this approach to DUP diplomats to download malware masked as Adobe Inc. software. Malware, called sogu.sec, was then installed in the device memory to prevent detection, WhitSell explained.
“I would assume that diplomats have quite sensitive documents on their laptops they use for everyday work. And yeah, as soon as you are on this device, you can get these documents,” said WhitSell, adding that he couldn’t see how much data was sent or lost.
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