Foreign affairs ministries in the Americas have been targeted by a Chinese state-sponsored actor namedΒ FleaΒ as part of a recent campaign that spanned from late 2022 to early 2023.
The cyber attacks, per Broadcom's Symantec, involved a new backdoor codenamed Graphican. Some of the other targets included a government finance department and a corporation that markets products in the Americas as
A recent campaign undertaken byΒ Earth PretaΒ indicates that nation-state groups aligned with China are getting increasingly proficient at bypassing security solutions.
TheΒ threat actor, active since at least 2012, is tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under Bronze President, HoneyMyte, Mustang Panda, RedDelta, and Red Lich.
Attack chains mounted by the group commence with a