Chinese Hackers Exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day Flaw to Target South Asian Entity

The Hacker News

A sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos’ firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an unnamed South Asian target as part of a highly-targeted attack.
“The attacker implement[ed] an interesting web shell backdoor, create[d] a secondary form of persistence, and ultimately launch[ed] attacks