Chinese advanced persistent threat group ramping up its activities with a new phishing campaign leveraging updated malware thats targeting diplomatic missions around the world. The hacking group, called TA416, is deploying an updated version of the PlugX remote access Trojan recently rewritten in the Golang programming language. This variant appears designed to help avoid detection by security tools and better hide the attackers’ espionage activity, according to security firm Proofpoint. The group has targeted diplomatic missions and organizations that have dealings with China’s government.”]
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