Taiwan University Under Fire From Unique DLL Backdoordarkreading.com - A newly identified backdoor called Msupedge has been discovered targeting a Taiwan university, using an uncommon technique of communicating with its command-and-control (C2) server via DNS traffic. Re... Show more
Aug 19, 2024
Additional Report
Msupedge Backdoor Exploiting DNS Tunneling (Campaign)threats.wiz.io - Backdoor.Msupedge was discovered to have attacked a Taiwanese university by leveraging a vulnerability in PHP (CVE-2024-4577) to gain remote code execution, using an uncommon method of DNS tunneling f... Show more
Aug 05, 2024
Additional Report
China-linked APT41 breached Taiwanese research institutesecurityaffairs.com - The attack beginning in July 2023 on a Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute by the APT41 group involved the deployment of ShadowPad malware using an outdated Microsoft Office IME binary ... Show more
Aug 02, 2024
Initial Disclosure
China's APT41 Targets Taiwan Research Institute for Cyber Espionagedarkreading.com - APT41 compromised a government-affiliated institute in Taiwan in July 2023 by leveraging multiple malware tools, including two versions of ShadowPad and Cobalt Strike, alongside a custom loader exploi... Show more
The Taiwan Research Institute (TRI) was established in 1994 as a privately funded non-profit organization and a non-partisan specialized think tank. It consists of five research divisions, five research centers, and a consult committee. TRI focuses on a range of research topics, primarily energy pol... Show more