{"id":581269,"date":"2021-07-03T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=581269"},"modified":"2021-07-03T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:50:58","slug":"indigozebra-hacking-group-suspected-of-targeting-afghan-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indigozebra-hacking-group-suspected-of-targeting-afghan-government\/","title":{"rendered":"IndigoZebra hacking group suspected of targeting Afghan government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findigozebra-hacking-group-suspected-of-targeting-afghan-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=581269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2445530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2445530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this file photo taken on August 04, 2020, Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, uses his computer at their office in Dongguan, China\u2019s southern Guangdong province. (NICOLAS ASFOURI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:44 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, July 3, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A new report said Chinese hackers may have been behind an attack on Afghanistan\u2019s National Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point reported on Thursday that a Chinese-speaking hacker group known as IndigoZebra is suspected of conducting ongoing cyberespionage against the Afghanistan government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first major Chinese cyberespionage operation in Afghanistan to come to light, coming just weeks after Check Point reported on an earlier one targeting Uyghurs in China\u2019s northwestern Xinjiang region as well as Pakistan,\u201d noted VOA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we unveil the technical details of a long-running operation by IndigoZebra APT:<br \/>* targeting high profile officials in Central Asia with spear-phishing emails<br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/xCaon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#xCaon<\/a> backdoor \u2013 ITW since at least 2014 <br \/>* new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoxCaon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoxCaon<\/a> variant uses Dropbox API as C&amp;C <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cX2aCjvxBz\">pic.twitter.com\/cX2aCjvxBz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Check Point Research (@_CPResearch_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_CPResearch_\/status\/1410568044229939201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The group is alleged to have sent documents from fake email addresses seemingly from the Afghan president to members of the Afghan nation\u2019s security council. The emails were reportedly laced with malware.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as countries and companies across the world have experienced an onslaught of cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/more-than-47m-americans-to-travel-july-4th-weekend\/\">More Than 47M Americans To Travel July 4th Weekend<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this file photo taken on August 04, 2020, Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, uses his computer at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}