{"id":1969,"date":"2024-09-09T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/chinese-hackers-exploit-visual-studio-code-in-southeast-asian-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:12:23","slug":"chinese-hackers-exploit-visual-studio-code-in-southeast-asian-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/chinese-hackers-exploit-visual-studio-code-in-southeast-asian-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Hackers Exploit Visual Studio Code in Southeast Asian Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Mustang Panda has been observed weaponizing Visual Studio Code software as part of espionage operations targeting government entities in Southeast Asia.<br \/>\n&#8220;This threat actor used Visual Studio Code&#8217;s embedded reverse shell feature to gain a foothold in target networks,&#8221; Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Tom Fakterman said in a\u00a0The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Mustang Panda has been observed weaponizing Visual Studio Code software as part of espionage operations targeting government entities in Southeast Asia.<br \/>\n&#8220;This threat actor used Visual Studio Code&#8217;s embedded reverse shell feature to gain a foothold in target networks,&#8221; Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Tom Fakterman said in a\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Mustang Panda has been observed weaponizing Visual Studio Code software as part of espionage operations targeting government entities in Southeast Asia. &#8220;This threat actor used Visual Studio Code&#8217;s embedded reverse shell feature to gain a foothold in target networks,&#8221; Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Tom&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/chinese-hackers-exploit-visual-studio-code-in-southeast-asian-cyberattacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Hackers Exploit Visual Studio Code in Southeast Asian Cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}