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  • Patchwork Hackers Target Chinese Research Organizations Using EyeShell

    From Really@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 5 01:49:40 2023
    XPost: alt.security, alt.virus, talk.politics.misc
    XPost: soc.culture.china

    Threat actors associated with the hacking crew known as Patchwork have been spotted targeting universities and research organizations in China as part of a recently observed campaign.

    The activity, according to KnownSec 404 Team, entailed the use of a backdoor codenamed EyeShell.

    <https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/patchwork-hackers-target-chinese.html?m=1>

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  • From 23k.304@21:1/5 to Really on Fri Aug 4 21:22:01 2023
    XPost: alt.security, talk.politics.misc, soc.culture.usa
    XPost: alt.military

    On 8/4/23 7:49 PM, Really wrote:
    Threat actors associated with the hacking crew known as Patchwork have been spotted targeting universities and research organizations in China as part of a recently observed campaign.

    The activity, according to KnownSec 404 Team, entailed the use of a backdoor codenamed EyeShell.

    <https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/patchwork-hackers-target-chinese.html?m=1>

    Unfortunately, this sort of hacking seems to be a tit-4-tat
    cyberwar with the Chinese. They WILL come back with something
    of equal or greater impact ... PLUS they know KNOW about this
    little trick. 'Patchwork' basically gave them the blueprints
    to their stealth bomber ....

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  • From Oregonian Haruspex@21:1/5 to 23k304@bfxw9.net on Sun Aug 6 19:14:43 2023
    XPost: alt.security, talk.politics.misc, soc.culture.usa
    XPost: alt.military

    23k.304 <23k304@bfxw9.net> wrote:
    On 8/4/23 7:49 PM, Really wrote:
    Threat actors associated with the hacking crew known as Patchwork have
    been spotted targeting universities and research organizations in China
    as part of a recently observed campaign.

    The activity, according to KnownSec 404 Team, entailed the use of a
    backdoor codenamed EyeShell.

    <https://thehackernews.com/2023/07/patchwork-hackers-target-chinese.html?m=1>

    Unfortunately, this sort of hacking seems to be a tit-4-tat
    cyberwar with the Chinese. They WILL come back with something
    of equal or greater impact ... PLUS they know KNOW about this
    little trick. 'Patchwork' basically gave them the blueprints
    to their stealth bomber ....


    Honeywell uploaded the F35’s blueprints to China actually.

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