{"id":46621,"date":"2022-05-13T04:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/to-predict-the-target-of-new-chinese-malware-look-at-the-target-of-new-chinese-laws\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T04:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:57:13","slug":"to-predict-the-target-of-new-chinese-malware-look-at-the-target-of-new-chinese-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/to-predict-the-target-of-new-chinese-malware-look-at-the-target-of-new-chinese-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"To predict the target of new Chinese malware, look at the target of new Chinese laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Hat Asia<\/span> To predict the targets of new Chinese malware, keep an eye on new Chinese government policies, a threat intelligence analyst suggested at the Black Hat Asia conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In a presentation about an emerging China-nexus modular trojan named “Pangolin8RAT”, Taiwan-based cybersecurity firm TeamT5\u2019s Silvia Yeh noted that attacks on online gambling operators occurred around the same time that China announced action against such outfits.<\/p>\n

While Yeh said the timing could be coincidental – gambling and online gaming companies have also historically experienced financially motivated attacks \u2013 Pangolin8RAT appears to be a weapon of choice for Chinese state-sponsored cyber operations.<\/p>\n

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We observed some crackdown campaigns were followed by cyber operations<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yew later told The Register<\/i> the attacks against foreign gambling firms might also be attempts to collect data for the crackdown campaigns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our opinion, we surmise that the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s crackdown on casinos (ie, crackdown against casinos in Macau<\/a>) have made the online gambling industry become prosperous. So, these online gambling firms which possess an abundant amount of money and data have become top targets of threat actors,\u201d said Yew to The Reg<\/i><\/p>\n