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Hello, Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us.

We originally published some research back around the May 2024 time frame called Operation Crimson Palace about some

China threat actor activity targeting a Southeast Asian government. But it turns

out right after we published the research, the threat actor

came back and resumed their activity with some new tools and tactics and even some new

targets that were involved. And so this year we just published kind of a second part of that research

continuing on with what these China-based threat actors were up to and some of

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