A Chinese nation-state threat actor targets Japanese enterprises, using malware families such as LODEINFO and NOOPDOOR to obtain sensitive data from compromised hosts, often for a period of two to three years, all the while staying under the radar.
Under the moniker Cuckoo Spear, the campaign is being monitored by the Israeli cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which links it to a known intrusion set called APT10, which is also referred to by the names Bronze Riverside, ChessMaster, Cicada, Cloudhopper, MenuPass, MirrorFace, Purple Typhoon (formerly Potassium), and Stone Panda.
It claimed that in addition to using LODEINFO during the campaign, the NOOPDOOR actors also made use of the new backdoor to steal data from hacked enterprise networks read more about Chinese Hackers Target Japanese Firms with LODEINFO and NOOPDOOR Malware.
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