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Research from the leading EU cybersecurity company, ESET, examines the latest APT Activity covering the eventful period October 2025 to March 2026.  The findings show that China-aligned threat actors remained highly active, with operations shaped by events such as the US military action in Venezuela and ongoing instability in the Gulf region.[1]

Notable events and participants over the 6-month period include:

• FamousSparrow targeted a Venezuelan government entity linked to maritime affairs, appa

A Chinese cyber espionage group targeting organizations and individuals in China and Japan has remained under the radar for roughly five years, cybersecurity firm ESET https://www.eset.com reports.  Researchers have tracked it as Blackwood and active since at least 2018, the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor has been using Adversary-in-the-Middle (AitM) attacks to deploy a sophisticated implant via the update mechanisms of legitimate software such as Sogou Pinyin, Tencent QQ, and WPS Office

A new state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT), a term used to describe nation level sponsored and very sophisticated cyber-espionage groups, has been observed escalating attacks against hotels across the world.  Code-named FamousSparrow, this new APT was discovered by Slovak security firm ESET, which said it is tracking hotel focused attacks as far back as 2019.

“FamousSparrow’s victims are located in Europe (France, Lithuania, the UK), the Middle East (Israel, Saudi Arabia), the Americ