CrowdStrike published a new report which blames the Chinese Putter Panda group for the different cyber espionage campaigns conducted against foreign companies. The group has been operating since at least 2007 and appears very interested in research companies in the space and satellite industry, experts at CrowdStrike have collected evidence of a numerous attacks against these industries. CrowdStrikes forensic experts adopted an efficient strategy to hide their origins by using compromised foreign websites to launch their cyber offensives. The hackers focus their exploits against popular applications, including Adobe reader and Microsoft Office to serve custom malware through spear phishing attacks.”]
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