China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure

The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked asAPT41has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region. "The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware," Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelovsaid. "One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a captive SharePoint server within the victim's infrastructure." APT41 is the monikerassignedto a prolific Chinese natio...