Chinese Hackers Use Coronavirus Data for Cyberattack
Return To ArticleChinese state-sponsored hackers are keen to get in on the act—at least according to the team at Check Point. In research published today, March 12, the firm exposes a Chinese APT, which it says has “weaponized” documents “to deliver previously unknown malware.”
Check Point told me its research team had intercepted “a targeted cyber-attack by a Chinese APT group on a public sector entity of Mongolia.” An attack which “leveraged the coronavirus pandemic.” In this example of social engineering at the highest level, the APT sent two documents, “one related to COVID-19, both impersonating the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the form of press briefings.” Those documents contained unique, remote access malware.
