Sophos Firewall Hack on Government Network Used All-New Custom Malware


  • Security researchers from the UK’s NCSC share more details about the tools used in Pacific Rim
  • Pygmy goat is a competent backdoor probably used by the Chinese
  • Even the FBI is asking for help to identify the crooks

Over the past five years, the Chinese have targeted edge devices from government agencies and departments in the US and elsewhere in the West in an operation dubbed ‘Pacific Rim’ – and we now have more details about the tools they used, and what Those tools allowed the attackers to do this.

Pacific Rim primarily targeted Sophos