Chinese Hacking Group Exploits Barracuda Zero-Day to Target Government, Military, and Telecom

A suspected Chinese-nexus hacking group exploited a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to breach government, military, defense, aerospace, high-tech industry, and telecom sectors as part of a global espionage campaign.

The group’s code name is FOXTROT and it shares many commonalities with other Chinese espionage campaigns tracked by GhostEmperor and Famous Sparrow as well as with an open-source rootkit called Reptile.

According to the report, Shared infrastructure and techniques for anonymization are common Chinese cyber espionage actors, as are shared tooling and likely malware development resources.

It is likely that we will continue to observe Chinese CY espionage operations targeting edge infrastructure with zero-days vulnerabilities and the deployment of malware customized to specific appliance ecosystems.

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