Group most likely linked to Chinese government
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Sep 7, 2016 18:30 GMT · By Catalin Cimpanu Last week, Agence France-Presse revealed a series of attacks against Hong Kong government officials just ahead of the region's legislative elections that were held during this past weekend. The report cited a FireEye high-ranking exec, who said his company detected attacks against two Hong Kong government departments.
Today, Symantec's security team released an in-depth account of those attacks, even if they also didn't reveal the departments targeted in these recent waves of hacking attempts, which FireEye and Honk Kong government officials said failed.
As FireEye, Symantec identified the group behind the attacks as APT3, referred by Symantec in its report as Buckeye, but also identified in other reports from security vendors as Gothic Panda, UPS Team, and TG-0110.
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