European Ministries Fall Victim to Chinese Hacker’s SmugX Campaign

Threat Level

Attack Report

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Summary

A Chinese nation-state group has been persistently conducting a campaign targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe. They employ HTML smuggling techniques to distribute a new variant of the PlugX remote access trojan.

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