Businesses have been warned to be on high alert after Five Eyes members, including Australia, blamed a Chinese state-backed hacking group for a stealth surveillance campaign responsible for a series of attacks on US critical infrastructure.
In a rare public attribution, the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued an advisory saying the group had exploited built-in Windows tools on compromised hosts.
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