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Chinese Hackers Exploit Enterprise Network Appliances

🔒 A Chinese state-sponsored group tracked as RedNovember carried out a global espionage campaign from June 2024 to July 2025, compromising defense contractors, government agencies, and major corporations by exploiting internet-facing network appliances. The attackers rapidly weaponized disclosed flaws in devices from SonicWall, Ivanti, Cisco, F5, Sophos, and Fortinet, often within 72 hours of public exploit code. They deployed Go-based tools including Pantegana, Cobalt Strike, and SparkRAT, and relied on open-source tooling and legitimate services to obfuscate attribution and maintain persistent access.

Chinese State-Linked RedNovember Targets Global Org

🛰️ Recorded Future has attributed a widespread cyber-espionage cluster to a Chinese state-sponsored actor it has named RedNovember, which overlaps with Microsoft's Storm-2077. From June 2024 to July 2025 the group targeted internet-facing perimeter appliances and used a mix of open-source and commercial tooling — notably Pantegana, Spark RAT and Cobalt Strike — to gain persistent access across government and private-sector networks worldwide. Attacks exploited known CVEs in VPNs, firewalls and other security appliances and leveraged a Go-based loader derived from LESLIELOADER, while administration infrastructure relied on VPN services such as ExpressVPN and Warp.