Vietnamese Human Rights Group Targeted in Multi-Year Cyberattack by APT32
An ongoing effort to install malware on vulnerable hosts has targeted a non-profit organization that defends human rights in Vietnam.
The activity was linked by cybersecurity company Huntress to a threat cluster called APT32, which is made up of the Vietnamese hacker group APT-C-00, Canvas Cyclone (previously Bismuth), Cobalt Kitty, and OceanLotus. It's estimated that the intrusion has been going on for at least four years.
Security experts Craig Sweeney and Jai Minton noted that this attack shares several approaches with known targets of the threat actor APT32/OceanLotus as well as a known target demographic read more about Vietnamese Human Rights Group Targeted in Multi-Year Cyberattack by APT32.
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