{"id":5530,"date":"2025-07-22T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:03:47","slug":"china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-html\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,&#8221; Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. &#8220;One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a captive<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region. &#8220;The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,&#8221; Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530"}],"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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}