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Bytes Europe @[email protected] · 2026-09-07 · 02:55 UTC

Half of New Zealand agencies miss email security bar https://www.byteseu.com/2343451/ #AsiaPacific #BusinessEmailCompromise #Compliance #cybersecurity #DigitalIdentity #DigitalTrust #DMARC #EmailSecurity #EnergySector #infosec #MinistryOfDefence(MOD) #NationalCyberSecurityCentre(NCSC) #NewZealand #NewZealand(NZ) #NewZealandGovernment #Phishing #Proofpoint #PublicSector #Risk&Compliance #SpearPhishing #ThreatLandscape #trade

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OTX Bot @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 08:35 UTC

SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia

SilkParasite is a cyberespionage operation assessed with medium confidence as China-nexus that targeted government bodies across Central Asia. Seven remote access tool families were deployed, five of which were previously undocumented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. The toolset is small, modular, and professionally engineered with traces of AI-assisted development. Initial access occurred through malicious Microsoft Office documents delivered via spear-phishing, using regionally tailored lures impersonating government ministries. The operation leveraged DLL sideloading as the primary delivery mechanism and used Google Drive for command-and-control communications to hide within trusted services. Infrastructure analysis identified connections to China Unicom's backbone network, and operational patterns suggest a functioning software organization with maintained build pipelines and careful operational security.

Pulse ID: 6a86a70eb8b57f155e62d4f7
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a86a70eb8b57f155e62d4f7
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-08-20 07:04:46

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#Asia #CentralAsia #China #CyberSecurity #Cyberespionage #DRat #Edge #Espionage #Google #Government #InfoSec #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #OTX #Office #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #Rust #SideLoading #SpearPhishing #bot #AlienVault