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A previously unknown government-backed hacking group is targeting organizations in the manufacturing, IT, and biomedical sectors across Taiwan, Vietnam, the US and an unnamed Pacific island, according to new research from Symantec.

Researchers are tracking the group under the name “Grayling” and said in a report released earlier this week that it is using custom-made malware as well as publicly available tools to attack its targets.  The attacks, which began in February and continued through May

Cybersecurity agencies from Japan and the US have warned of attacks mounted by a state-backed hacking group from China to stealthily tamper with branch routers and use them as jumping-off points to access the networks of various companies in the two countries.  The attacks have been tied to a malicious cyber actor dubbed BlackTech by the US National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Japan National Police Agency

An information and hacking campaign, called Ghostwriter, with links to a foreign state has potentially had a "significant cumulative impact" over many years, according to a report from Cardiff University.  The findings, from the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, provide the most comprehensive picture to date of the activities of the so-called Ghostwriter campaign.

Tracking its evolving activities via open-source data, the report demonstrates how it has impersonated multiple