Tag: Vietnam
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BatShadow APT Launches Vampire Bot Campaign, Targeting Job Seekers with Malicious Samsung Lures
The threat actor known as BatShadow, linked to Vietnam, has launched a new malicious campaign targeting job seekers and digital marketing professionals. Posing as recruiters, the attackers distribute forged job descriptions; when victims open the files, a multi-stage infection unfolds, ultimately delivering a previously undocumented Go-written malware dubbed Vampire Bot. The infection chain begins with…
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Vietnam’s National Credit Bureau Hacked: ShinyHunters Claims Massive Data Breach
Some data breaches achieve global notoriety due to the sheer magnitude of those affected — such as the 2019 Facebook scraping incident, which exposed the records of 553 million users. Others unfold as national catastrophes: in 2019, a misconfigured database revealed the personal details of nearly the entire population of Ecuador; in 2006, an insider…
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Unmasked by a Blunder: Chinese Hackers Exposed in Massive Vietnam Espionage Campaign
Researchers from Ctrl-Alt-Int3l have published a detailed analysis of a large-scale operation targeting Vietnamese universities. Their investigation was made possible thanks to open directories where attackers, through a critical oversight, had left behind a trove of data — including command-and-control server configurations, operator logs, and even source code from compromised systems. This blunder allowed analysts…
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RedHook Android Banking Trojan Targets Vietnamese Banks with Phishing, RAT, and Full Device Takeover
Amid the continued proliferation of Android-targeting malware, researchers at Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) have identified a sophisticated new threat dubbed RedHook. First observed in January 2025, this banking Trojan exhibits a particularly deceptive modus operandi, masquerading as official applications from Vietnamese government agencies and financial institutions—including the State Bank of Vietnam, Sacombank, the…
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Google plans to transfer Pixel production from China to Vietnam
In order to increase production and reduce costs, Google is planning to transfer its smartphone Pixel production business from China to Vietnam, it is not clear whether this will affect the upcoming Pixel 4 production. It is reported that Google has begun to transform the old Nokia smartphone factory in Bac Ninh, northern Vietnam, into…