US govt exposes Chinese espionage malware secretly used since 2008

The U.S. government today released information on a malware variant used by Chinese government-sponsored hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks.

The new malware is a remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed TAIDOOR actively used by Chinese government cyber actors according to information published today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense (DoD).

"China’s Taidoor malware has been compromising systems since 2008" U.S. Cyber Command also tweeted today. 

U.S. Cyber Command has also uploaded four samples of the newly discovered RAT malware variants onto the VirusTotal malware aggregation repository.

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