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The Winnti cyber-espionage group out of China was discovered deploying the Spyder Loader malware as part of an ongoing campaign to gather intelligence information on government organizations in Hong Kong.
Researchers at Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team recently observed malicious activity in which attackers remained active on some targeted networks for more than a year to steal critical data in what they believe is an extension of the group’s previously identified Operation Cuckoobees, they said in a blog post published this week.
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