Operation Digital Eye Reveals Cybersecurity Breach

It has been recently reported that a Chinese group of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) has carried out a sophisticated cyberespionage operation dubbed “Operation Digital Eye” against the United States. 

Between the end of June and the middle of July 2030, a campaign targeting large business-to-business (B2B) IT service providers in southern Europe between late June and mid-July 2024 was reported by Aleksandar Milenkoski, Senior Threat Researcher at SentinelLabs, and Luigi Martire, Senior Malware Analyst at Tinexta Cyber. 

Several threats are targeting business-to-business IT service providers in southern Europe, according to Tinexta Cyber and SentinelLabs, both of which have been tracking these activities. As a result of assessing the malware, infrastructure, techniques used, victimology, and timing of the activities, it has been concluded that there is a high likelihood that a cyberespionage actor of the China nexus conducted these attacks. 

A group of Chinese hackers has been observed utilizing Visual Studio Code (VSCode) tunnels to maintain persistent remote access to compromised systems at large IT service providers in Southern Europe. There is no information regarding which hacker group aligned wi

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