Cybereason has revealed its discovery of several previously unidentified cyber-attack campaigns infiltrating major telecommunications providers across Southeast Asia.
In the report, titled 'DeadRinger: Exposing Chinese Threat Actors Targeting Major Telcos', multiple clusters of attack activity were identified and are assessed to be the work of several prominent 'Advanced Persistent Threat' (APT) groups aligned with the interests of the Chinese government.
Similar to the recent 'SolarWinds' and 'Kaseya' attacks, the threat actors first compromised third-party service providers, but instead of using them to deliver malware through a supply chain attack, the intent was to leverage them to conduct surveillance of their customers' confidential communications.
The report found that the attackers were highly adaptive and worked diligently to obscure their activity and maintain persistence on the infected systems, dynamically...