{"id":4275,"date":"2025-05-29T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/apt41-malware-abuses-google-calendar-for-stealthy-c2-communication\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:03:57","slug":"apt41-malware-abuses-google-calendar-for-stealthy-c2-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/apt41-malware-abuses-google-calendar-for-stealthy-c2-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"APT41 malware abuses Google Calendar for stealthy C2 communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    APT41 malware abuses Google Calendar for stealthy C2 communication<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The Chinese APT41 hacking group uses a new malware named &#8216;ToughProgress&#8217; that abuses Google Calendar for command-and-control (C2) operations, hiding malicious activity behind a trusted cloud service. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/apt41-malware-abuses-google-calendar-for-stealthy-c2-communication\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APT41 malware abuses Google Calendar for stealthy C2 communication The Chinese APT41 hacking group uses a new malware named &#8216;ToughProgress&#8217; that abuses Google Calendar for command-and-control (C2) operations, hiding malicious activity behind a trusted cloud service. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}