X-Industry

The sophisticated malware known as ViperSoftX has been observed being distributed as eBooks over torrents.  BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner.  The protocol is developed and maintained by Rainberry, Inc., and was first released in 2001.

A notable aspect of the current variant of ViperSoftX is that it uses the Common

SUMMARY:

Information regarding a group of Chinese APT cyber actors stealing high value information from commercial and governmental victims in the US and abroad was recently collected and analyzed by US federal authorities.  This Chinese APT group is known within private sector reporting as APT10, Cloud Hopper, menuPass, Stone Panda, Red Apollo, CVNX and POTASSIUM.  This group heavily targets managed service providers (MSP) who offer cloud computing services; commercial and governmental clients