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Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) gangs have resumed their hacking activities, with one of the attacks targeting an American computer retailer using an unknown backdoor referred to as Sidewalk, according to The Hacker News.
In a report, ESET Cybersecurity Researchers Mathieu Tartare and Thibaut Passilly describe the fresh backdoor as modular, allowing the dynamic loading of additional modules from specific control and command servers. The malware is also designed to target Cloudflare workers as C&C servers and Google Docs as dead drop resolvers.
Security researchers describe SideWalk as “responsible for reading the encrypted shellcode from disk, decrypting it and injecting it into a legitimate process using the process hollowing techniqu…
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