{"id":159868,"date":"2023-03-08T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-malware-variant-has-radio-silence-mode-to-evade-detection"},"modified":"2023-03-08T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:24:12","slug":"new-malware-variant-has-radio-silence-mode-to-evade-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-malware-variant-has-radio-silence-mode-to-evade-detection","title":{"rendered":"New malware variant has \u201cradio silence\u201d mode to evade detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-malware-variant-has-radio-silence-mode-to-evade-detection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sharp Panda cyber-espionage hacking group is targeting high-profile government entities in Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia with a new version of the \u2018Soul\u2019 malware framework.<\/p>\n<p>The particular malware was previously seen in espionage campaigns targeting critical Southeast Asian organizations, attributed to various Chinese APTs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.checkpoint.com\/2023\/pandas-with-a-soul-chinese-espionage-attacks-against-southeast-asian-government-entities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Check Point<\/a> identified a new campaign using the malware that started in late 2022 and continues through 2023, employing spear-phishing attacks for initial compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sharp Panda cyber-espionage hacking group is targeting high-profile government entities in Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia with a new version of the \u2018Soul\u2019 malware framework. The particular malware was previously seen in espionage campaigns targeting critical Southeast Asian organizations, attributed to various Chinese APTs. Check Point identified a new campaign using the malware that started [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159868","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}