ESET Research discovers new China-aligned group, GopherWhisper: It abuses messaging services Discord, Slack, and Outlook to spy

AI Briefing

• – ESET discovers new China-aligned APT group, GopherWhisper, that abuses messaging services to spy
• – Threat actors target government institution in Mongolia using various backdoors and legitimate services
• – GopherWhisper uses tools written in Go for command and control communication and data exfiltration