{"id":128381,"date":"2021-10-01T03:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/chinese-espionage-group-deploys-new-rootkit-compatible-with-windows-10-systems"},"modified":"2021-10-01T03:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T10:23:40","slug":"chinese-espionage-group-deploys-new-rootkit-compatible-with-windows-10-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/chinese-espionage-group-deploys-new-rootkit-compatible-with-windows-10-systems","title":{"rendered":"Chinese espionage group deploys new rootkit compatible with Windows 10 systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-espionage-group-deploys-new-rootkit-compatible-with-windows-10-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the SAS 2021 security conference today, analysts from security firm Kaspersky Lab have published details about a new Chinese cyber-espionage group that has been targeting high-profile entities across South East Asia since at least July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Named <strong>GhostEmperor<\/strong>, Kaspersky said the group uses highly sophisticated tools and is often focused on gaining and keeping long-term access to its victims through the use of a powerful rootkit that can even work on the latest versions of Windows 10 operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe observed that the underlying actor managed to remain under the radar for months,\u201d Kaspersky researchers explained today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the SAS 2021 security conference today, analysts from security firm Kaspersky Lab have published details about a new Chinese cyber-espionage group that has been targeting high-profile entities across South East Asia since at least July 2020. Named GhostEmperor, Kaspersky said the group uses highly sophisticated tools and is often focused on gaining and keeping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}