{"id":230029,"date":"2026-01-28T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/mustang-panda-deploys-updated-coolclient-backdoor-in-government-cyber-attacks"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:22:13","slug":"mustang-panda-deploys-updated-coolclient-backdoor-in-government-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/mustang-panda-deploys-updated-coolclient-backdoor-in-government-cyber-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Panda Deploys Updated COOLCLIENT Backdoor in Government Cyber Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mustang-panda-deploys-updated-coolclient-backdoor-in-government-cyber-attacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China-linked Mustang Panda used updated COOLCLIENT malware in 2025 espionage to steal data from government and telecom targets across Asia and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China-linked Mustang Panda used updated COOLCLIENT malware in 2025 espionage to steal data from government and telecom targets across Asia and Russia.<\/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-230029","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\/230029","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=230029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}