Incident responders discovered a novel malware framework while investigating an attack on a Philippine military company attributed to a government-backed hacking group from China. Cybersecurity company Bitdefender published a blog post this week about EggStreme, a multi-stage toolset that gave the alleged Chinese hackers backdoor access to conduct an espionage campaign. The core component of the malware, EggStremeAgent, allows hackers to perform reconnaissance, move laterally around a victim’
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The Philippines Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) earlier this week flagged the growing cyber-attacks against Philippine government websites, including those of the Executive branch and some lawmakers, ahead of the midterm elections. “We are constantly under attack from different sectors, from hackers, from scammers,” DICT Secretary Ivan John E. Uy told a news briefing at the presidential palace. “These are persistent threat actors. We have detected a significant
