{"id":4979,"date":"2025-07-21T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-espionage-campaign-on-african-it-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:13:42","slug":"china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-espionage-campaign-on-african-it-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-espionage-campaign-on-african-it-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,&#8221; Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. &#8220;One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a captive\u00a0The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,&#8221; Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. &#8220;One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a captive\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region. &#8220;The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,&#8221; Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. &#8220;One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/china-linked-hackers-launch-targeted-espionage-campaign-on-african-it-infrastructure\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4980,"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\/4979"}],"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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}