CrowdStrike warns of uptick in Silk Typhoon attacks this summer

The Chinese state-backed threat group Silk Typhoon has raised the pace of attacks targeting government, technology, legal and professional services in North America since late spring, according to CrowdStrike.

“We were calling this jokingly, ‘the summer of Murky Panda,’ because we’ve seen so much activity from them over the last couple of months,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, using the firm’s nomenclature for the cyberespionage group.

CrowdStrike has worked on more than a dozen cases involving Murky Panda during the past few months, including two active incident response cases, Meyers said. The group, which has been active since at least 2023, is “one of the top-tier Chinese threats that we’ve been seeing a lot this summer,” he said.

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