New variant of 12-year-old computer virus used by China’s state-sponsored hackers. Called “Taidoor,” the malware has done an ‘excellent’ job of compromising systems as early as 2008. The FBI has high confidence that Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation,” the FBI and the Department of Defense said in a joint advisory. Four samples of the virus have been uploaded to VirusTotal to let 50+ Antivirus companies check the virus’s involvement in other unattributed campaigns.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/08/chinese-hacking-malware.html