By Ravie Lakshmanan
An "extremely sophisticated" Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbedΒ LuoYuΒ has been observed using a malicious Windows tool called WinDealer that's delivered by means of man-on-the-side attacks.
"This groundbreaking development allows the actor to modify network traffic in-transit to insert malicious payloads," Russian cybersecurity company KasperskyΒ saidΒ in a new report.