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🛡️ SecOps

China-Linked SHADOW-EARTH-053 Targets Asian Governments and NATO Member With ShadowPad Implants

Security researchers have attributed a sustained intrusion campaign against at least seven government ministries across Southeast and Central Asia — and one NATO member state's foreign affairs ministry — to the China-nexus cluster SHADOW-EARTH-053, operating the ShadowPad remote access trojan. The campaign exploits legacy Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities for initial access and uses living-off-the-land techniques to evade detection.

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