Leveraging for a bigger objective. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 31 October 2020

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The U.S. government has charged seven men in relation to hundreds of cyber attacks against organizations in the U.S. and multiple other countries in Asia and Europe. Two of the men, who were based in Malaysia, were arrested and their extradition to the U.S. has been requested. The other five are based in China and remain at large. The attacks were attributed to a China-linked organization dubbed APT41 and involved a combination of intellectual property theft and financially motivated cyber crime. While some of our peers monitor APT41 as a single operation, Symantec regards it as two distinct actors: Grayfly and Blackfly. Joining us in this week's Research Saturday to discuss the research from Symantec's Threat Hunter Team is Jon DiMaggio. The research can be found here: APT41: Indictments Put Chinese Espionage Group in the Spotlight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:25.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts
1:29.0	tracking down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly
1:35.2	evolving cyberspace.
1:37.3	Thanks for joining us.
1:38.3	Well, APT 41 is a longstanding group that's been around since
1:47.7	according to the recent diamond 2011.
1:51.1	We at Samantha have actually been tracking them since 2012.
1:56.6	So shortly after they popped up, they kind of,
1:59.1	they got an R radar.
2:00.6	That's John DiMaggio from Symantec's threat hunter team. The research we're discussing today is titled APT 41. Indictments put Chinese espionage group in the spotlight. You can sense the glory.
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