Microsoft has uncovered that Vietnamese government-backed hackers are deploying cryptographic mining malware close by their ordinary digital undercover work toolkits.
The report highlights a growing trend in the cyber-security industry where an increasing number of state-backed hacking groups are also dipping their toes into regular cybercrime operations, making it harder to distinguish financially-motivated crime from intelligence-gathering operations.
Tracked by the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team as Bismuth, the Vietnamese group has been active since 2012 and is more widely known as APT32 and OceanLotus.continue reading….
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