{"id":243138,"date":"2026-08-25T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/operation-quicsilver-targets-myanmar-government-and-it-with-quicagent-backdoor"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:22:36","slug":"operation-quicsilver-targets-myanmar-government-and-it-with-quicagent-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/operation-quicsilver-targets-myanmar-government-and-it-with-quicagent-backdoor","title":{"rendered":"Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/operation-quicsilver-targets-myanmar-government-and-it-with-quicagent-backdoor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a cyber espionage campaign targeting Myanmar that uses graduation ceremony invitation lures to deliver a Go backdoor called QUICAgent.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, codenamed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seqrite.com\/blog\/operation-quicsilver-china-nexus-actor-targets-myanmar-diplomats-via-vhd-delivered-go-backdoor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation QUICSILVER<\/a><\/strong>, has been found to target government and information technology sectors, per Seqrite Labs. The activity is assessed to be the work of a China-nexus threat actor with moderate confidence.<\/p>\n<p>It was first observed in April 2026, when the attack was observed delivering a file named \u201cHolidayNotice.pdf.exe\u201d along with a lure that was a fabricated Belgian\u2013Myanmar public holiday calendar. Two subsequent artifacts, each detected in June and July 2026, make use of a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file that activates the infection chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a cyber espionage campaign targeting Myanmar that uses graduation ceremony invitation lures to deliver a Go backdoor called QUICAgent. The campaign, codenamed Operation QUICSILVER, has been found to target government and information technology sectors, per Seqrite Labs. The activity is assessed to be the work of a China-nexus threat actor with [\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-243138","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\/243138","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=243138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}