Hackers Target Asia Pacific Governments in 5-year Cyber Espionage Campaign
Check Point researchers unveil a long-term, ongoing stealth espionage operation orchestrating gov-to-gov attacks Researchers at Check Point have uncovered the five-year, ongoing cyber espionage operations of a called Naikon, an APT group targeting several governments in the Asia Pacific Region. First reported in 2015, the group was responsible for attacks against top-level government agencies and related organisations in countries around the South China Sea, in search of political intelligence. But during 2015 the Naikon group slipped off the radar, with no new evidence or reports of activities found – until...