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Chinese APT group GhostEmperor targeting Southeast Asia

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There has been the discovery of a new Chinese-speaking threat actor who targets Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. GhostEmperor was an organization that targeted high-profile targets. A toolset is being used by this Chinese APT group, and it has no resemblances or ties to any recognized threat organizations.

“GhostEmperor” is primarily targeting Southeast Asian government and telecom institutions, according to Kaspersky’s APT Trends Q2 2021 report.

Kaspersky researchers have revealed several additional ongoing patterns in the APT environment for Q2 in addition to the considerable increase in targeted assaults against Microsoft Exchange servers.

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This Chinese APT group and other APT groups are targeting government institutions and commercial companies have been uncovered in recent years. It shows how hackers use weaknesses in order to target new victims. For corporate goods like Microsoft Exchange servers, the deployment of unknown and sophisticated rootkits, like in this case, offers a larger risk than in other cases.

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