The U.S. government today released information on a malware variant used by Chinese government-sponsored hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks.
The new malware is a remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed TAIDOOR actively used by Chinese government cyber actors according to information published today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense (DoD).
"China’s Taidoor malware has been compromising systems since 2008," U.S. Cyber Command also tweeted today.
U.S. Cyber Command has also uploaded four samples of the newly discovered RAT malware variants onto the VirusTotal malware aggregation repository.
Well it’s good to see finally something a bit more concrete as I’m afraid all the political screaming about Huawei completely deafened me to the "China issues from US". He who alleges should back it up with something. It will be interesting to hear this being dissected more in the coming weeks. Espionage is one thing but all the bloatware at Big Tech tracking on phones is becoming a thing too. I’m warming more to the idea of a Linux phone in the future.
See US govt exposes Chinese espionage malware secretly used since 2008
The U.S. government today released information on a malware variant used by Chinese government-sponsored hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks.