‘Highly evasive’ Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of victims in 62+ nations

Vietnamese-speaking hackers are carrying out a “highly evasive, multi-stage operation” to steal information from thousands of victims in more than 62 countries, researchers said in a report published Monday.

The attackers emerged late last year but have evolved with novel techniques this year, with SentinelLABS of SentinelOne and Beazley Security ultimately identifying 4,000 victims, most commonly in South Korea, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary and Austria.

“The evolving tradecraft in these recent campaigns demonstrates that these adversaries have meticulously refined their deployment chains, making them increasingly more challenging to detect and analyze,” reads the report.

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