Since June 2023, a threat actor going by the name of Tropic Trooper has been conducting a sustained cyber campaign against unidentified government agencies in the Middle East and Malaysia.
According to Sherif Magdy, a security researcher at Kaspersky, “this group’s sighting of their [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] in important governmental entities in the Middle East, particularly those related to human rights studies, marks a new strategic move.”
The activity was discovered in June 2024, according to the Russian cybersecurity vendor, when a public web server running the open-source Umbraco content management system (CMS) discovered a new version of the China Chopper web Shell—a tool used by many Chinese-speaking threat actors for remote access to compromised servers read more about Chinese-Speaking Hacker Group Targets Human Rights Studies in Middle East.
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