China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors

Source: The Hacker News

Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China‑aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper.

“The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal,” Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker.