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An Investigation Into Years of Undetected Operations Targeting High-Value Sectors

Since at least 2020, we have observed a cluster of activity targeting high-value organizations across South, Southeast and East Asia. The attacks focus on critical sectors such as aviation, energy, government, law enforcement, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications. Unit 42 is tracking this ongoing, previously undocumented activity as CL-UNK-1068. We designate the term UNK to clusters of activity whose affiliation with either nation-state or cybercrime activity we have not yet determined. We assess with high confidence that the attackers behind CL-UNK-1068 are a Chinese threat actor. This assessment is based on the origin of their tools, linguistic artifacts in configuration files, and their consistent, longstanding targeting of critical infrastructure in Asia. We assess with…

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Mar 6, 2026
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