{"id":3217,"date":"2025-01-22T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/plushdaemon-apt-targets-south-korean-vpn-provider-in-supply-chain-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:15:21","slug":"plushdaemon-apt-targets-south-korean-vpn-provider-in-supply-chain-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/plushdaemon-apt-targets-south-korean-vpn-provider-in-supply-chain-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with one that also deployed the group&#8217;s signature implant that we have named SlowStepper \u2013 a\u00a0A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with one that also deployed the group&#8217;s signature implant that we have named SlowStepper \u2013 a\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. &#8220;The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with one that also deployed the group&#8217;s signature implant that we have named&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/plushdaemon-apt-targets-south-korean-vpn-provider-in-supply-chain-attack\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3218,"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\/3217"}],"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=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}