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  1. Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

    A China-aligned threat group designated SHADOW-EARTH-053 has been conducting cyberespionage operations against government entities and critical infrastructure across at least eight countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia, plus one NATO member state, since December 2024. The group exploits unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, particularly the ProxyLogon chain, to gain initial access and deploys GODZILLA web shells for persistence. ShadowPad implants are staged via DLL sideloading of legitimate signed executables. Nearly half of the compromised environments showed overlap with another intrusion set, SHADOW-EARTH-054, sharing identical tooling including Evil-CreateDump and IOX proxy. The attackers conduct extensive Active Directory reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and mailbox exfiltration targeting high-profile government officials and defense contractors. Multiple tunneling tools including GOST and Wstunnel establish covert command-and-control channels, while lateral movement leverages WM...

    Pulse ID: 69f3a95eda9a5492f5d1b6f4
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/69f3a
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-04-30 19:11:26

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Asia #China #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #Espionage #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #NATO #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Proxy #RAT #ShadowPad #SideLoading #bot #AlienVault

  2. Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

    A China-aligned threat group designated SHADOW-EARTH-053 has been conducting cyberespionage operations against government entities and critical infrastructure across at least eight countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia, plus one NATO member state, since December 2024. The group exploits unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, particularly the ProxyLogon chain, to gain initial access and deploys GODZILLA web shells for persistence. ShadowPad implants are staged via DLL sideloading of legitimate signed executables. Nearly half of the compromised environments showed overlap with another intrusion set, SHADOW-EARTH-054, sharing identical tooling including Evil-CreateDump and IOX proxy. The attackers conduct extensive Active Directory reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and mailbox exfiltration targeting high-profile government officials and defense contractors. Multiple tunneling tools including GOST and Wstunnel establish covert command-and-control channels, while lateral movement leverages WM...

    Pulse ID: 69f3a95eda9a5492f5d1b6f4
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/69f3a
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-04-30 19:11:26

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Asia #China #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #Espionage #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #NATO #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Proxy #RAT #ShadowPad #SideLoading #bot #AlienVault

  3. Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

    A China-aligned threat group designated SHADOW-EARTH-053 has been conducting cyberespionage operations against government entities and critical infrastructure across at least eight countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia, plus one NATO member state, since December 2024. The group exploits unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, particularly the ProxyLogon chain, to gain initial access and deploys GODZILLA web shells for persistence. ShadowPad implants are staged via DLL sideloading of legitimate signed executables. Nearly half of the compromised environments showed overlap with another intrusion set, SHADOW-EARTH-054, sharing identical tooling including Evil-CreateDump and IOX proxy. The attackers conduct extensive Active Directory reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and mailbox exfiltration targeting high-profile government officials and defense contractors. Multiple tunneling tools including GOST and Wstunnel establish covert command-and-control channels, while lateral movement leverages WM...

    Pulse ID: 69f3a95eda9a5492f5d1b6f4
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/69f3a
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-04-30 19:11:26

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Asia #China #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #Espionage #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #NATO #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Proxy #RAT #ShadowPad #SideLoading #bot #AlienVault

  4. Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

    A China-aligned threat group designated SHADOW-EARTH-053 has been conducting cyberespionage operations against government entities and critical infrastructure across at least eight countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia, plus one NATO member state, since December 2024. The group exploits unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, particularly the ProxyLogon chain, to gain initial access and deploys GODZILLA web shells for persistence. ShadowPad implants are staged via DLL sideloading of legitimate signed executables. Nearly half of the compromised environments showed overlap with another intrusion set, SHADOW-EARTH-054, sharing identical tooling including Evil-CreateDump and IOX proxy. The attackers conduct extensive Active Directory reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and mailbox exfiltration targeting high-profile government officials and defense contractors. Multiple tunneling tools including GOST and Wstunnel establish covert command-and-control channels, while lateral movement leverages WM...

    Pulse ID: 69f3a95eda9a5492f5d1b6f4
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/69f3a
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-04-30 19:11:26

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Asia #China #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #Espionage #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #NATO #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Proxy #RAT #ShadowPad #SideLoading #bot #AlienVault

  5. Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

    A China-aligned threat group designated SHADOW-EARTH-053 has been conducting cyberespionage operations against government entities and critical infrastructure across at least eight countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia, plus one NATO member state, since December 2024. The group exploits unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, particularly the ProxyLogon chain, to gain initial access and deploys GODZILLA web shells for persistence. ShadowPad implants are staged via DLL sideloading of legitimate signed executables. Nearly half of the compromised environments showed overlap with another intrusion set, SHADOW-EARTH-054, sharing identical tooling including Evil-CreateDump and IOX proxy. The attackers conduct extensive Active Directory reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and mailbox exfiltration targeting high-profile government officials and defense contractors. Multiple tunneling tools including GOST and Wstunnel establish covert command-and-control channels, while lateral movement leverages WM...

    Pulse ID: 69f3a95eda9a5492f5d1b6f4
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/69f3a
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2026-04-30 19:11:26

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Asia #China #CredentialHarvesting #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #Espionage #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #NATO #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Proxy #RAT #ShadowPad #SideLoading #bot #AlienVault

  6. SHADOW-EARTH-053: la campagna APT cinese che spia governi asiatici, la NATO e i diplomatici cubani

    Trend Micro ha smascherato SHADOW-EARTH-053, un gruppo APT allineato alla Cina attivo dal dicembre 2024 che ha colpito governi e contractor difesa in Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Taiwan e Polonia. In parallelo, un'operazione correlata ha violato le email di 68 diplomatici cubani a Washington sfruttando Exchange non patchati. Analisi tecnica di ShadowPad, Godzilla webshell, CVE-2025-55182 e delle implicazioni per i difensori.

    insicurezzadigitale.com/shadow

  7. #CheckPoint Research revealed a sophisticated wave of attacks attributed to the Chinese #threat actor #InkDragon, which targets European governments while continuing campaigns in Southeast Asia and South America. The threat actor converts compromised #IIS servers into relay nodes with #ShadowPad, exploits predictable configuration keys for access, and deploys a new #FinalDraft #backdoor for exfiltration and lateral movement.

    research.checkpoint.com/2025/i

  8. #CheckPoint Research revealed a sophisticated wave of attacks attributed to the Chinese #threat actor #InkDragon, which targets European governments while continuing campaigns in Southeast Asia and South America. The threat actor converts compromised #IIS servers into relay nodes with #ShadowPad, exploits predictable configuration keys for access, and deploys a new #FinalDraft #backdoor for exfiltration and lateral movement.

    research.checkpoint.com/2025/i

  9. #CheckPoint Research revealed a sophisticated wave of attacks attributed to the Chinese #threat actor #InkDragon, which targets European governments while continuing campaigns in Southeast Asia and South America. The threat actor converts compromised #IIS servers into relay nodes with #ShadowPad, exploits predictable configuration keys for access, and deploys a new #FinalDraft #backdoor for exfiltration and lateral movement.

    research.checkpoint.com/2025/i

  10. Analysis of ShadowPad Attack Exploiting WSUS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287)
    #CVE_2025_59287 #ShadowPad
    asec.ahnlab.com/en/91166/

  11. Threat actors are actively exploiting CVE-2025-59287 in WSUS to deploy ShadowPad.

    ASEC notes the attackers used PowerCat for shell access, then fetched and installed ShadowPad with certutil/curl, executing it through DLL side-loading.

    How are you securing WSUS or other update infrastructure in your environment?
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    #infosec #WSUS #ShadowPad #CVE2025 #malware #threatintel #sysadmin #DFIR #TechNadu

  12. Good day everyone!

    This is a really interesting read from SentinelOne Labs . Back in October 2024 they dealt with a reconnaissance operation that was related to the activity cluster tracked as #PurpleHaze and then in 2025 "they helped disrupt an intrusion linked to a wider #ShadowPad operation". The activity was attributed to China-nexus threat actors.

    The article gives an in-depth view of what it looks like when an organization that is responsible for "IT services and logistics" gets compromised, which we could call a supply-chain attack. The article also provides a TON of technical details about tools and infrastructure that was used, indicators of compromise to scan for in your environment, and behaviors and commands that were observed throughout. This one may take a while to read but its worth it! Thanks to the researchers Dr Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom Hegel for this report! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did. Happy Hunting!

    Follow the Smoke | China-nexus Threat Actors Hammer At the Doors of Top Tier Targets
    sentinelone.com/labs/follow-th

    Intel 471 Cyborg Security, Now Part of Intel 471 #ThreatIntel #ThreatHunting #ThreatDetection #HappyHunting #readoftheday

  13. Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
    #SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the #security vendor's own servers
    In their report, they describe a series of intrusions between July 2024 and March 2025 involving #ShadowPad #malware and post-exploitation espionage activity that SentinelOne has dubbed "#PurpleHaze", publicly reported as #APT15 and #UNC5174, And they're blaming #China.
    theregister.com/2025/06/09/chi

  14. Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
    #SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the #security vendor's own servers
    In their report, they describe a series of intrusions between July 2024 and March 2025 involving #ShadowPad #malware and post-exploitation espionage activity that SentinelOne has dubbed "#PurpleHaze", publicly reported as #APT15 and #UNC5174, And they're blaming #China.
    theregister.com/2025/06/09/chi

  15. Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
    discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the vendor's own servers
    In their report, they describe a series of intrusions between July 2024 and March 2025 involving and post-exploitation espionage activity that SentinelOne has dubbed "", publicly reported as and , And they're blaming .
    theregister.com/2025/06/09/chi

  16. Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
    #SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the #security vendor's own servers
    In their report, they describe a series of intrusions between July 2024 and March 2025 involving #ShadowPad #malware and post-exploitation espionage activity that SentinelOne has dubbed "#PurpleHaze", publicly reported as #APT15 and #UNC5174, And they're blaming #China.
    theregister.com/2025/06/09/chi

  17. Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
    #SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the #security vendor's own servers
    In their report, they describe a series of intrusions between July 2024 and March 2025 involving #ShadowPad #malware and post-exploitation espionage activity that SentinelOne has dubbed "#PurpleHaze", publicly reported as #APT15 and #UNC5174, And they're blaming #China.
    theregister.com/2025/06/09/chi

  18. ⚠️ Chinese hackers hit governments, media, and cybersecurity firms in a global cyber espionage spree. Over 70 orgs targeted using tools like ShadowPad and PurpleHaze.

    Read: hackread.com/chinese-linked-ha

    #CyberSecurity #China #CyberAttack #PurpleHaze #ShadowPad #APT15

  19. ⚠️ Chinese hackers hit governments, media, and cybersecurity firms in a global cyber espionage spree. Over 70 orgs targeted using tools like ShadowPad and PurpleHaze.

    Read: hackread.com/chinese-linked-ha

  20. ⚠️ Chinese hackers hit governments, media, and cybersecurity firms in a global cyber espionage spree. Over 70 orgs targeted using tools like ShadowPad and PurpleHaze.

    Read: hackread.com/chinese-linked-ha

    #CyberSecurity #China #CyberAttack #PurpleHaze #ShadowPad #APT15

  21. ⚠️ Chinese hackers hit governments, media, and cybersecurity firms in a global cyber espionage spree. Over 70 orgs targeted using tools like ShadowPad and PurpleHaze.

    Read: hackread.com/chinese-linked-ha

    #CyberSecurity #China #CyberAttack #PurpleHaze #ShadowPad #APT15

  22. ⚠️ Chinese hackers hit governments, media, and cybersecurity firms in a global cyber espionage spree. Over 70 orgs targeted using tools like ShadowPad and PurpleHaze.

    Read: hackread.com/chinese-linked-ha

    #CyberSecurity #China #CyberAttack #PurpleHaze #ShadowPad #APT15

  23. For incident responders investigating Shadowpad cases, remember to retrieve the volume serial number where #Shadowpad was deployed. The first time the malware is run, it will delete the encoded payload file (<random name>.tmp), and encrypt it in the Windows registry using the volume serial number. Those can also be found in LNK and Prefetch files in case you don't have live access to the host anymore.
    You can then use the VolumeID tool from Sysinternals to change the volume serial number of your virtual machine
    learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi

  24. Technical Analysis of a Novel IMEEX Framework

    The IMEEX framework is a newly discovered, custom-built malware targeting Windows systems. Delivered as a 64-bit DLL, it offers extensive control over compromised machines, featuring execution of additional modules, file manipulation, process management, registry modification, and remote command execution. It primarily targets Djibouti and Afghanistan, gathering system information and communicating with its command-and-control server over encrypted channels. The framework employs advanced techniques like masquerading as legitimate processes, mutex creation, and encrypted communications to maintain persistence and evade detection. Its modular approach, robust capabilities, and potential infrastructure overlap with ShadowPad suggest an evolution in threat actor tactics.

    Pulse ID: 670cf932eede40d2e1660012
    Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/670cf
    Pulse Author: AlienVault
    Created: 2024-10-14 10:57:54

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

    #Afghanistan #CyberSecurity #ICS #InfoSec #Mac #Malware #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #RemoteCommandExecution #ShadowPad #Windows #bot #AlienVault