More than a dozen organizations in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, including industrial plants, research institutes and government agencies, were targeted by a suspected Chinese-speaking hacking group earlier this year, according to new research. The attacks, which were first observed in January and hit organizations in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, have characteristics that led researchers at Kaspersky to attribute them to the TA428 advanced persistent threat (APT) group with “a high degree of confidence,” the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm said in a report published Monday. “The attackers were able to penetrate dozens of enterprises and even hijack the IT infrastructure of some,...