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Sygnia Says 'Weaver Ant' Is the Latest Chinese Threat to Networks

Cybersecurity company Sygnia identified a new network threat from China, which it calls Weaver Ant. “Nation-state threat actors like Weaver Ant are incredibly dangerous and persistent with the primary goal of infiltrating critical infrastructure and collecting as much information as…

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they can before being discovered,” the company said Monday. “Multiple layers of web shells concealed malicious payloads, allowing the threat actor to move laterally within the network and remain evasive.”