Chinese Military Hackers Launch Tripple Cyberattack on Major Telecom Carriers

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Emissary Panda (APT27), Naikon, and Soft Cell are the organizations that carried out various hacking activities on the same telecom carriers in Southeast Asia at the same time, according to Cybereason. 

Recent cyberattacks conducted by Hafnium cybercriminal gang used vulnerabilities in unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers and the same bugs were used in this particular situation. Threat actors gained access to target networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server that had previously been published.

Once compromised, the hackers gained access to the sensitive information contained in key network resources such as Domain Controllers (DC), high-level corporate resources such as billing servers that contain call detail record data (CDR), as well as key network components such as telecom carriers’ billing servers. 

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