Web Bugs & the Tubthumping Tactics of Chinese Threat Actor TA416
DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches
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TA416's Use of Web Bugs
Web bugs are embedding an object, or in some cases, a tracking pixel within the body of an email to issue a rudimentary GET request. Threat actors have been using these web bugs as a reconnaissance method prior to sending malicious emails. PIM: Do you think that this was an effort by TA416 to make their tactics more sophisticated? We first seeing this used in mid-2020s; they probably haven't used it before.
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