Chinese Hackers Attacking Windows Systems In Targeted Campaign To Deploy Ghost RAT And PhantomNet Malwares - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News
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Chinese Hackers Attacking Windows Systems In Targeted Campaign To Deploy Ghost RAT And PhantomNet Malwares - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News
Threat researchers are warning of twin Chinese-nexus espionage operations—“Operation Chat” and “Operation PhantomPrayers”—that erupted in the weeks preceding the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, exploiting heightened traffic to Tibetan-themed websites to seed Windows hosts with sophisticated backdoors. By compromising a legitimate greeting page and quietly swapping its hyperlink, attackers funneled visitors to look-alike domains under niccenter[.]net…
China-Based APTs Deploy Fake Dalai Lama Apps to Spy on Tibetan Community
The Tibetan community has been targeted by a China-nexus cyber espionage group as part of two campaigns conducted last month ahead of the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday on July 6, 2025. The multi-stage attacks have been codenamed Operation GhostChat and Operation PhantomPrayers by Zscaler ThreatLabz. "The attackers compromised a legitimate website, redirecting users via a malicious link and
Chinese Hackers Launch Targeted Campaign to Infect Windows Systems with Ghost RAT and PhantomNet Malware
Zscaler ThreatLabz, in collaboration with TibCERT, has uncovered two linked attack campaigns dubbed Operation GhostChat and Operation PhantomPrayers, attributed with high confidence to a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group. These operations targeted the Tibetan community by capitalizing on heightened online activity surrounding the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday on July 6, 2025. Exploiting Cultural Events […] The post Chinese Hackers …
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