Using a DOPLUGS backdoor, the China-affiliated threat actor Mustang Panda has targeted multiple Asian nations with PlugX (also known as Korplug).
In a recent technical write-up, Trend Micro researchers Sunny Lu and Pierre Lee stated that “the piece of customized PlugX malware is dissimilar to the general type of the PlugX malware that contains a completed backdoor command module, and that the former is only used for downloading the latter.”
Taiwan and Vietnam have been the main targets of DOPLUGS, with smaller percentages being found in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, and even China.
Mustang Panda, also known as BASIN, Bronze President, Camaro Dragon, Earth Preta, HoneyMyte, RedDelta, Red Lich, Stately Taurus, TA416, and TEMP.Hex, is a tool that is essential to the application read more Mustang Panda Targets Asia with Advanced PlugX Variant DOPLUGS.
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