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Web Bugs & the Tubthumping Tactics of Chinese Threat Actor TA416

DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches

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Plug X: The Future of Encryption

I wouldn't say it's exactly specific to this group, but definitely some of the more sophisticated groups have full like CI, CD pipelines or development pipelines. And on top of that, various versions of plug X can make attribution difficult. So rather than having a very custom effective kit that they are deploying to victims, they're reusing a very well-known tool originally developed by Chinese APT actors in a number of over a decade now operations.

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