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Chinese Hackers Caught Exploiting the Most Popular Antivirus Software Products | Ron Benvenisti

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[Chinese Hackers Caught Exploiting the Most Popular Antivirus Software Products | Ron Benvenisti] A Chinese-aligned cyberespionage group, Moshen Dragon, has been observed infiltrating legitimate antivirus software belonging to BitDefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro. Chinese threat actors usually focus on espionage activity,” SentinelOne’s Joey Chen said. “Those tools have flexible, modular functionality and are compiled via shellcode to easily bypass traditional endpoint protection products.” This is a “masterpiece of privately sold malware in Chinese espionage,” associated with several Chinese malicious actors. A National Security Threat The Chinese government-sponsored hacking group, Bronze Atlas (aka APT41, Barium, or Winnti), has been…

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