Cybersecurity
Taiwan Ruling Party’s Website Hacked in Cyberspying Campaign
- FireEye didn’t identify hackers, but Chinese used tool before
- DPP members came under attack before January’s election
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The website of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party has come under attack from cyberspies seeking to profile visitors to the site, part of a campaign to get information about the party’s policies following its election victory in January, according to a U.S. cybersecurity researcher.
On at least two separate occasions in April, the DPP’s website redirected visitors to a spoof online address that hosted a malicious script. That script likely profiled them and selected candidates for additional cyber-attacks, according to research by security company FireEye Inc., which said in a statement it hadn’t attributed the operation to a specific threat group.