Chinese Hackers Launching Zegost Malware to Attack Government Networks Via Weaponized MS Powerpoint

From gbhackers.com

Chinese Hackers Launching Zegost Malware to Attack Government Networks Via Weaponized MS Powerpoint

Researchers discovered a new campaign with Zegost info stealer malware that believed to be originated from Chinese based threat actors who is targeting government networks in China.

Zegost uncovered back to 2011 since then attackers updated with various new functionalities and added new persistence capabilities, exploits to maintain the access.

Researchers believe that the malware only focuses on the Chinese government network, but it was unclear why threat actors targeting only government agencies.

By nature, the malware developed to steal the targeted victim’s information that resides in the compromised network with the ability to leverage multiple exploits.

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