Chinese APT groups continue to hammer away at networks belonging to organizations across the U.S. and Europe. FireEye’s Mandiant group this week reported it had responded to numerous intrusions where China-based threat actors compromised Pulse Secure VPN appliances to break into an organization’s network and steal sensitive data. Mandiant says it has observed threat groups using a set of 16 tools specifically designed to attack Pulse Secure devices since April 2020. The main motivation appears to be to gather data that would help China achieve the objectives of its recent 14th Five Year Plan.”]