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Risky Bulletin: New Chinese cyber contractor identified

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Risky Bulletin: New Chinese cyber contractor identified

Intrusion Truth researchers identified Guangdong Chanming, a Chinese IT company operating as a cyber contractor for state-sponsored hacking groups. The company appears to have developed RedRelay (also called ORBWEAVER), a proxy botnet used by approximately a dozen Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) groups including APT15, Red Vulture, Ke3chang, and others to obfuscate attack origins.

Why it matters: Organizations targeted by Chinese APT groups should understand the infrastructure ecosystem enabling these attacks; defenders tracking RedRelay infrastructure can now attribute it to a specific contractor and potentially identify related tools and operations.

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