By Ravie Lakshmanan
The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor calledΒ MQsTTangΒ as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that commenced in January 2023.
"Unlike most of the group's malware, MQsTTang doesn't seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects," ESET researcher Alexandre CΓ΄tΓ© CyrΒ saidΒ in a new report.
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