Reportseverity: High2022-11-18
Earth Preta spear-phishes Asia-Pacific governments at scale
published by Trend Micro
Actor
PRC state-aligned intrusion set focused on espionage against European government and NGO targets, Southeast Asian government and military targets (especially around the South China Sea), Mongolia, Ta…
Summary
Trend Micro documented Earth Preta (Mustang Panda) running a broad spear-phishing campaign against Asia-Pacific government and academic targets, delivering trojanised archives that side-loaded the TONEINS, TONESHELL, and PUBLOAD malware families on victims of interest.
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