An ongoing cyber-espionage operation with suspected ties to China has been found targeting a Southeast Asian government to deploy spyware on Windows systems. The long-running campaign has been linked with “medium to high confidence” to a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group it calls “SharpPanda” Researchers from Check Point Research said the operation stayed under the radar for more than three years. The use of weaponized copies of legitimate-looking official documents suggests “the attackers first had to attack another department within the targeted state, stealing and weaponizing documents for use”
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/experts-uncover-yet-another-chinese.html