The team of cyber threat security intelligence has discovered a brand new cyber espionage campaign that is victimizing energy and manufacturing agencies around the world. It has been reported by the US-based cyber-security firm Proofpoint and PwC Threat Intelligence that the Chinese APT known as TA423, Red Ladon, APT40, and Leviathan is behind this cyberespionage campaign.
The operators of this campaign are primarily targeting firms across Australia, Malaysia, and Europe as well as the entities that operate in the South China Sea including organizations involved in an offshore wind farm in the Taiwan Strait.
The Australian targets included the federal government, military academic institutions, and defense and public health sectors. The Malaysian targets included global marketing and finance companies, offshore drilling, and deep-water energy exploration firms. The campaign has been noticed working in three different phases – the latest from April 2022 to mid-June 2022.
As per the data, the group has been active since 2013 and previously this group has been found targeting defense contractors, universities, manufacturers, government agencies, foreign c
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